Improve Kedro-viz telemetry tracking in the codebase

[rashidakanchwala]

Description

The Kedro-viz telemetry numbers seem very low. This ticket is to revisit telemetry and ensure that tracking is accurate and correct information is being recorded.

Update - Kedro-Viz heap tracking works as expected. However there were number of interactions that were out of date and some new ones that we weren't tracking. We have fixed that now in #1995. Follow up ticket to this is #1999.

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[astrojuanlu]

Addressed in #1995

[yetudada]

I have a query about this; I assumed there were two issues with tracking telemetry on Kedro-Viz:

1. We’re not sure if telemetry is properly activated when users have opted in for tracking (the old way)
2. There’s a mess with how components/features are named on Kedro-Viz, making it hard to tell what is and what is not being used once telemetry is active

Did we ever understand 1.?

[rashidakanchwala]

1. For one; i did live data tracking on both Production and Development Heap and tested all the click events on Kedro-viz that we were tracking. We were tracking everything but the naming wasn't correct/clear so we fixed that in Refactor: Replace data-heap-event with standardized data-test for Cypress and Telemetry #1995

[rashidakanchwala]

I don't know if this issue is closed though; as we still need to create a proper heap dashboard. A part of this issue is closed: improving tracking to the code.

[yetudada]

@rashidakanchwala Okay, that’s fair. Maybe what would be helpful is if you could complete the description for the GitHub issue and describe what needs to be done, because they can be sub-tickets of this one.

Also, this means we should assume that the ratio of Framework to Kedro-Viz users is actually correct, based on what you found?

[rashidakanchwala]

Yes, I believe so. Besides, we check this ratio through CLI commands rather than UI interactions. Specifically, we track unique users who run kedro run and determine how many of them also run kedro viz or kedro viz run

Agree, improve telemetry is more of an epic which we need to break down into multiple tickets. I will do that now.

[rashidakanchwala]

closing this as 99 tickets later we have a follow up ticket :) #1999