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Thomas Eizinger c595bb872d chore(telemetry): use same DSN for GUI and IPC service (#7667)
The application-split itself doesn't really warrant having two different
Sentry projects.

1. The location of the panic / log already tells us, which component is
failing.
2. Both of the projects are built with Rust so the same "platform"
setting applies.
3. Reducing the number of Sentry projects makes things easier to manage.
4. The binaries are started as independent processes, so the two Sentry
contexts don't interfere.

What we should keep in mind is that one instance of an application will
now log into Sentry twice using the same DSN. I _think_ this means that
the number of sessions listed in Sentry will be double the number of
actual client-runs. The same is true for the Apple client though and
once we integrate Sentry for Android, the same will apply there so
relative to each other, those numbers still make sense.
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Rust development guide

Firezone uses Rust for all data plane components. This directory contains the Linux and Windows clients, and low-level networking implementations related to STUN/TURN.

We target the last stable release of Rust using rust-toolchain.toml. If you are using rustup, that is automatically handled for you. Otherwise, ensure you have the latest stable version of Rust installed.

Reading Client logs

The Client logs are written as JSONL for machine-readability.

To make them more human-friendly, pipe them through jq like this:

cd path/to/logs  # e.g. `$HOME/.cache/dev.firezone.client/data/logs` on Linux
cat *.log | jq -r '"\(.time) \(.severity) \(.message)"'

Resulting in, e.g.

2024-04-01T18:25:47.237661392Z INFO started log
2024-04-01T18:25:47.238193266Z INFO GIT_VERSION = 1.0.0-pre.11-35-gcc0d43531
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295243016Z INFO No token / actor_name on disk, starting in signed-out state
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295360641Z INFO null

Benchmarking on Linux

The recommended way for benchmarking any of the Rust components is Linux' perf utility. For example, to attach to a running application, do:

  1. Ensure the binary you are profiling is compiled with the release profile.
  2. sudo perf record -g --freq 10000 --pid $(pgrep <your-binary>).
  3. Run the speed test or whatever load-inducing task you want to measure.
  4. sudo perf script > profile.perf
  5. Open profiler.firefox.com and load profile.perf

Instead of attaching to a process with --pid, you can also specify the path to executable directly. That is useful if you want to capture perf data for a test or a micro-benchmark.