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Thomas Eizinger de35bb067e fix(telemetry): don't embed errors values in telemetry_event! (#7366)
Due to https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-rust/issues/702, errors which
are embedded as `tracing::Value` unfortunately get silently discarded
when reported as part of Sentry "Event"s and not "Exception"s.

The design idea of these telemetry events is that they aren't fatal
errors so we don't need to treat them with the highest priority. They
may also appear quite often, so to save performance and bandwidth, we
sample them at a rate of 1% at creation time.

In order to not lose the context of these errors, we instead format them
into the message. This makes them completely identical to the `debug!`
logs which we have on every call-site of `telemetry_event!` which
prompted me to make that implicit as part of creating the
`telemetry_event!`.

Resolves: #7343.
2024-11-18 18:17:08 +00:00
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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 bench profile.
  2. sudo perf 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.