summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/toolkit/components/telemetry/docs/concepts/submission.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorMatt A. Tobin <mattatobin@localhost.localdomain>2018-02-02 04:16:08 -0500
committerMatt A. Tobin <mattatobin@localhost.localdomain>2018-02-02 04:16:08 -0500
commit5f8de423f190bbb79a62f804151bc24824fa32d8 (patch)
tree10027f336435511475e392454359edea8e25895d /toolkit/components/telemetry/docs/concepts/submission.rst
parent49ee0794b5d912db1f95dce6eb52d781dc210db5 (diff)
downloadUXP-5f8de423f190bbb79a62f804151bc24824fa32d8.tar
UXP-5f8de423f190bbb79a62f804151bc24824fa32d8.tar.gz
UXP-5f8de423f190bbb79a62f804151bc24824fa32d8.tar.lz
UXP-5f8de423f190bbb79a62f804151bc24824fa32d8.tar.xz
UXP-5f8de423f190bbb79a62f804151bc24824fa32d8.zip
Add m-esr52 at 52.6.0
Diffstat (limited to 'toolkit/components/telemetry/docs/concepts/submission.rst')
-rw-r--r--toolkit/components/telemetry/docs/concepts/submission.rst34
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/toolkit/components/telemetry/docs/concepts/submission.rst b/toolkit/components/telemetry/docs/concepts/submission.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..165917d40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/components/telemetry/docs/concepts/submission.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+==========
+Submission
+==========
+
+*Note:* The server-side behaviour is documented in the `HTTP Edge Server specification <https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/DataPipeline/HTTPEdgeServerSpecification>`_.
+
+Pings are submitted via a common API on ``TelemetryController``.
+If a ping fails to successfully submit to the server immediately (e.g. because
+of missing internet connection), Telemetry will store it on disk and retry to
+send it until the maximum ping age is exceeded (14 days).
+
+*Note:* the :doc:`main pings <../data/main-ping>` are kept locally even after successful submission to enable the HealthReport and SelfSupport features. They will be deleted after their retention period of 180 days.
+
+Submission logic
+================
+
+Sending of pending pings starts as soon as the delayed startup is finished. They are sent in batches, newest-first, with up
+to 10 persisted pings per batch plus all unpersisted pings.
+The send logic then waits for each batch to complete.
+
+If it succeeds we trigger the next send of a ping batch. This is delayed as needed to only trigger one batch send per minute.
+
+If ping sending encounters an error that means retrying later, a backoff timeout behavior is
+triggered, exponentially increasing the timeout for the next try from 1 minute up to a limit of 120 minutes.
+Any new ping submissions and "idle-daily" events reset this behavior as a safety mechanism and trigger immediate ping sending.
+
+Status codes
+============
+
+The telemetry server team is working towards `the common services status codes <https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/DataPipeline/HTTPEdgeServerSpecification#Server_Responses>`_, but for now the following logic is sufficient for Telemetry:
+
+* `2XX` - success, don't resubmit
+* `4XX` - there was some problem with the request - the client should not try to resubmit as it would just receive the same response
+* `5XX` - there was a server-side error, the client should try to resubmit later