Magento2: Google chart API used by Magento dashboard scheduled to be turned off

[eerorika]

Magento uses a Google web API http://chart.apis.google.com/chart to draw the admin dashboard graph. The API has been deprecated in 2012 and has been scheduled to be turned off on March 14, 2019

Preconditions (*)

1. Any Magento version (including Magento 1 and) up to at least 2.2 (tested) and 2.3 dev branch (not tested, but the URL is still in the code, so it is presumably affected too)
2. The deprecated API has been turned off (March 14, 2019)

Steps to reproduce (*)

1. a) Either wait for the deprecated API to be turned off (March 14, 2019)
   b) Or simulate it by adding 127.0.0.1 chart.apis.google.com into /etc/hosts
2. Login as admin
3. If it is not the default, open dashboard

Expected result (*)

1. The dashboard graph should work
2. No critical errors are produced in log

Actual result (*)

As the API isn't turned off yet, the exact behaviour is speculative and depends on how gracefully Google plans to execute the take down. Following is one potential undesired result:

1. The graph in the dashboard does not work.
2. In log, something like:

main.CRITICAL: Unable to read response, or response is empty {"exception":"Zend_Http_Client_Exception: Unable to read response, or response is empty in vendor/magento/zendframework1/library/Zend/Http/Client.php:1093
Stack trace:
#0 vendor/magento/framework/HTTP/ZendClient.php(52): Zend_Http_Client->request('GET')
#1 vendor/magento/module-backend/Controller/Adminhtml/Dashboard/Tunnel.php(68): Magento\\Framework\\HTTP\\ZendClient->request('GET')
#2 generated/code/Magento/Backend/Controller/Adminhtml/Dashboard/Tunnel/Interceptor.php(24): Magento\\Backend\\Controller\\Adminhtml\\Dashboard\\Tunnel->execute()
#3 vendor/magento/framework/App/Action/Action.php(107): Magento\\Backend\\Controller\\Adminhtml\\Dashboard\\Tunnel\\Interceptor->execute()
#4 vendor/magento/module-backend/App/AbstractAction.php(235): Magento\\Framework\\App\\Action\\Action->dispatch(Object(Magento\\Framework\\App\\Request\\Http))
#5 vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php(58): Magento\\Backend\\App\\AbstractAction->dispatch(Object(Magento\\Framework\\App\\Request\\Http))
#6 vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php(138): Magento\\Backend\\Controller\\Adminhtml\\Dashboard\\Tunnel\\Interceptor->___callParent('dispatch', Array)
#7 vendor/magento/module-backend/App/Action/Plugin/Authentication.php(143): Magento\\Backend\\Controller\\Adminhtml\\Dashboard\\Tunnel\\Interceptor->Magento\\Framework\\Interception\\{closure}(Object(Magento\\Framework\\App\\Request\\Http))
#8 vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php(135): Magento\\Backend\\App\\Action\\Plugin\\Authentication->aroundDispatch(Object(Magento\\Backend\\Controller\\Adminhtml\\Dashboard\\Tunnel\\Interceptor), Object(Closure), Object(Magento\\Framework\\App\\Request\\Http))
#9 vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php(153): Magento\\Backend\\Controller\\Adminhtml\\Dashboard\\Tunnel\\Interceptor->Magento\\Framework\\Interception\\{closure}(Object(Magento\\Framework\\App\\Request\\Http))
#10 generated/code/Magento/Backend/Controller/Adminhtml/Dashboard/Tunnel/Interceptor.php(143): Magento\\Backend\\Controller\\Adminhtml\\Dashboard\\Tunnel\\Interceptor->___callPlugins('dispatch', Array, NULL)
#11 vendor/magento/framework/App/FrontController.php(55): Magento\\Backend\\Controller\\Adminhtml\\Dashboard\\Tunnel\\Interceptor->dispatch(Object(Magento\\Framework\\App\\Request\\Http))
#12 vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php(58): Magento\\Framework\\App\\FrontController->dispatch(Object(Magento\\Framework\\App\\Request\\Http))
#13 vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php(138): Magento\\Framework\\App\\FrontController\\Interceptor->___callParent('dispatch', Array)
#14 vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php(153): Magento\\Framework\\App\\FrontController\\Interceptor->Magento\\Framework\\Interception\\{closure}(Object(Magento\\Framework\\App\\Request\\Http))
#15 generated/code/Magento/Framework/App/FrontController/Interceptor.php(26): Magento\\Framework\\App\\FrontController\\Interceptor->___callPlugins('dispatch', Array, Array)
#16 vendor/magento/framework/App/Http.php(135): Magento\\Framework\\App\\FrontController\\Interceptor->dispatch(Object(Magento\\Framework\\App\\Request\\Http))
#17 generated/code/Magento/Framework/App/Http/Interceptor.php(24): Magento\\Framework\\App\\Http->launch()
#18 vendor/magento/framework/App/Bootstrap.php(257): Magento\\Framework\\App\\Http\\Interceptor->launch()
#19 pub/index.php(37): Magento\\Framework\\App\\Bootstrap->run(Object(Magento\\Framework\\App\\Http\\Interceptor))
#20 {main}"

Another potential behaviour is an error message in the graph image.

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Thank you for verifying the issue. Based on the provided information internal tickets MAGETWO-98583, MAGETWO-98584 were created

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[durzel]

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart appears to be fully offline now, and blocks a connection for a period of time before responding with a 502 error. http://chart.apis.google.com returns 404.

[i-bajrai]

Oh no! Did google actually do something when they said they would?

Its ok the deprecation was only... 5 years?

[rougou]

The API seems to be back online as of right now.

[DanielRuf]

The API seems to be back online as of right now.

Not sure what you mean. This was shutdown a few days ago.

[rougou]

The API seems to be back online as of right now.

Not sure what you mean. This was shutdown a few days ago.

I mean the google API is working again right now for some reason.
https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=120x120&cht=qr&chl=test

[DanielRuf]

Weird, but we should not trust this. Well, Google often change their decision. But it seems we are already working on a solution.

[hostep]

Magento released a patch for Magento 1, see announcement.
No news yet on Magento 2 I think.

[sdzhepa]

Hello @eerorika @rougou @DanielRuf @hostep @durzel

Thank you for contribution and collaboration!

The corresponding internal ticket MAGETWO-98583was fixed and delivered by Magento team

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