Implement Feature Flag to Disable Integrated Error Tracking by Default
Summary
This issue is to cleanup the <feature-flag-name> feature flag, after the feature flag has been enabled by default for an appropriate amount of time in production.
Owners
- Team: ~"group::respond"
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to:
#g_respond - Best individual to reach out to: @seanarnold
- PM: @abellucci
Stakeholders
Release Notes
Add a feature flag for integrated error tracking until error tracking is prioritized by product and is production ready.
Expectations
- Add a feature flag as per https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/feature_flags/
- Return
404for HTTP endpoints as described in https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/error_tracking.html - Make sure that
integratedis alwaysfalsein Project Settings API - Remove the option for error tracking backing in settings, see screen shot
- Update documentation mentioning this feature flag
What might happen if this goes wrong?
Cleaning up the feature flag
- Create a merge request to remove
<feature-flag-name>feature flag. Ask for review and merge it.- Remove all references to the feature flag from the codebase.
- Remove the YAML definitions for the feature from the repository.
- Create a changelog entry.
- Ensure that the cleanup MR has been deployed to both production and canary.
If the merge request was deployed before the code cutoff,
the feature can be officially announced in a release blog post.
-
/chatops run auto_deploy status <merge-commit-of-cleanup-mr>
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- Close the feature issue to indicate the feature will be released in the current milestone.
- Clean up the feature flag from all environments by running these chatops command in
#productionchannel:-
/chatops run feature delete <feature-flag-name> --dev -
/chatops run feature delete <feature-flag-name> --staging -
/chatops run feature delete <feature-flag-name>
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- Close this rollout issue.
Edited by Alana Bellucci