The Publishing Platform team is currently working on adding request tracing to all apps that use the Publishing API in an asynchronous way via Sidekiq - alphagov/collections-publisher#194 and alphagov/whitehall#2567. This will need repeating across many apps. The implementation is sufficiently complex that a mass-change of all apps in the future is not unlikely.
A previous shotgun surgery on apps with Sidekiq was the adding of sidekiq-statsd - https://trello.com/c/z2aHqwS8/48-add-sidekiq-statsd-to-apps-that-use-sidekiq which needed ~10 PRs.
There are ~15 GOV.UK apps that use Sidekiq, and they all use slightly different versions, logging and configuration.
Introduce a govuk-sidekiq gem that consolidates all GOV.UK Sidekiq conventions:
- Use automatic request tracing (based on alphagov/whitehall#2567)
- Use sidekiq-statsd (like alphagov/places-manager#117)
- Use logging (
sidekiq-logging-jsonis used very inconsistently) - Perhaps setup & configuration
This will make all our apps easier to manage and upgrade.