Mybinder.org-deploy: Can analytics-publisher be pushed upstream?

[jhamman]

I'd like to see if mybinder's analytics-publisher can be moved upstream to the main Binderhub chart? Or if it could be pushed to a chart of its own? I started the process of copying the existing analytics-publisher bits from this repo to pangeo-binder but quickly realized that may not be the best way to proceed.

[betatim]

Making its own package out of it so that it is easier to reuse in other binder deployments makes sense.

Maybe @yuvipanda has interest/time to do so or work with you to do it. I think it would be Ok for @jhamman to create the package, chart, etc for doing this and we later move it back into the jupyterhub org or leave it with you for maintenance (or some such).

[choldgraf]

I think this would be great - I'm not sure whether @yuvipanda has documented the service that the publisher performs but I'm happy to help write up some docs and deployment information as a first step, then we could look into integrating into the helm chart over time

[yuvipanda]

There's docs on using it here: https://mybinder-sre.readthedocs.io/en/latest/analytics/events-archive.html

This issue and PRs linked in https://github.com/jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy/issues/789 should be useful.

The code in BinderHub itself is very generic, and has no direct dependency on Google Cloud or any particular logging solution. https://binderhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/eventlogging.html has docs on how to use that.

Would love for someone to take this on! It should be a package by itself, and something we should include as a separate chart at least to begin with.

Am happy to answer more questions if need be.