[Feature flag] Rollout of `sync_metrics_dashboards`
What
Remove the :sync_metrics_dashboards
feature flag. This enables alerting for custom metric dashboards.
Owners
- Team: monitor
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to:
#s_monitor
- Best individual to reach out to: Ryan Cobb
Expectations
This enables the ability to set metrics dashboard alerts on custom dashboards. This is done my syncing any custom dashboards to the gitlab database.
What are we expecting to happen?
The only change that should be visible is the ability to set alerts on custom dashboards.
What might happen if this goes wrong?
What can we monitor to detect problems with this?
Errors would be most apparent in sentry.
Beta groups/projects
If applicable, any groups/projects that are happy to have this feature turned on early. Some organizations may wish to test big changes they are interested in with a small subset of users ahead of time for example.
-
gitlab-org/gitlab
project -
gitlab-org
/gitlab-com
groups - ...
Roll Out Steps
-
Enable on staging -
Test on staging -
Ensure that documentation has been updated -
Enable on GitLab.com for individual groups/projects listed above and verify behaviour -
Coordinate a time to enable the flag with #production
and#g_delivery
on slack. -
Announce on the issue an estimated time this will be enabled on GitLab.com -
Enable on GitLab.com by running chatops command in #production
-
Cross post chatops slack command to #support_gitlab-com
(more guidance when this is necessary in the dev docs) and in your team channel -
Announce on the issue that the flag has been enabled -
Remove feature flag and add changelog entry -
After the flag removal is deployed, clean up the feature flag by running chatops command in #production
channel
Edited by Peter Leitzen