[Feature flag] Rollout of `database_sourced_aggregated_metrics`
What
Remove the :feature_name
feature flag database_sourced_aggregated_metrics
Owners
- Team: ~"group::product intelligence"
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to:
#g_product_intelligence
- Best individual to reach out to: @mikolaj_wawrzyniak
Expectations
What are we expecting to happen?
Aggregated Metrics included in Usage Ping payload will be calculated over database sourced metrics as well as over Redis sourced ones
What might happen if this goes wrong?
Things that may be affected:
- Usage Ping
- Aggregated Metrics
What can we monitor to detect problems with this?
Any failures should be captured in the scope of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/298366
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 ( /chatops run feature set feature_name true --staging
) -
Test on staging -
Ensure that documentation has been updated -
Enable on GitLab.com for individual groups/projects listed above and verify behaviour ( /chatops run feature set --project=gitlab-org/gitlab feature_name true
) -
Coordinate a time to enable the flag with the SRE oncall and release managers - In
#production
mention@sre-oncall
and@release-managers
. Once an SRE on call and Release Manager on call confirm, you can proceed with the rollout
- In
-
Announce on the issue an estimated time this will be enabled on GitLab.com -
Enable on GitLab.com by running chatops command in #production
(/chatops run feature set feature_name true
) -
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
Rollback Steps
-
This feature can be disabled by running the following Chatops command:
/chatops run feature set --project=gitlab-org/gitlab feature_name false