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Usage measurements might be counting a bot in Virginia #4709
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Looking at our analytics reports, I see high usage in Ashburn, Virginia. Perhaps this is a bot/Travis/etc ?
This is after we changed the UA number, so this is recent data.
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sethladd commentedon Jun 22, 2016
cc @devoncarew is it possible we install flutter when we build the website? I'm trying to think of other CI-type systems we might have running. Chrome infra?
sethladd commentedon Jun 22, 2016
Ah, it's here: https://github.com/flutter/website/blob/master/tool/travis.sh#L23
Would we be filtering this out already?
I doubt this is the source of the big numbers, because we don't trigger builds of the website often. But still might be counted... ?
devoncarew commentedon Jun 22, 2016
This should be filtered with our generic TRAVIS exclusion, but it can't hurt to exclude it specifically in it's travis.sh script.
Perhaps we're counting bots from other people's CI systems? People developing Flutter apps?
devoncarew commentedon Jun 22, 2016
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flutter config --no-analytics)eseidelGoogle commentedon Jun 23, 2016
I don't think it's that call which is causing this:
eseidelGoogle commentedon Jun 23, 2016
https://build.chromium.org/p/client.flutter/builders/Mac/builds/1270/steps/test%20create/logs/stdio is one step where our waterfall bots call create, however I don't believe those are located in virginia. Also CHROME_HEADLESS is clearly defined in the environment there, although it's possible that our environment override is blocking that for the call?
I don't understand why it's just create and analyze?
The above builder does not call analyze. :) But I know of no other builder of ours which uses create.
eseidelGoogle commentedon Jun 23, 2016
I asked @abarth and he pointed me to:
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/packages/flutter_tools/test/create_test.dart
Which is likely the culprit. I'm sure we clear the environment before calling
flutter, so we don't know we're on travis there. :)sethladd commentedon Jun 23, 2016
Thanks for the investigation!
devoncarew commentedon Jun 23, 2016
I'll fire off a PR -
devoncarew commentedon Jun 24, 2016
Looking into this, it does look like the tests are using instances of
MockUsage- a mock class that doesn't send any analytics.sethladd commentedon Jul 11, 2016
Thanks for taking a look at this. Any luck?
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zanderso commentedon Feb 11, 2020
This is still happening, although from a different town in Virginia. I am taking a look.
zanderso commentedon May 6, 2020
Monitoring the 1.17 stable release for reports from bots.
zanderso commentedon Jun 3, 2020
These have dropped off. Closing.
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