config: add missing related settings from mitol-django-olposthog package#3943
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I think a cleaner fix would be to import the PostHog settings using import_settings_modules, as in MITx Online here. WDYT?
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I agree. Let me work on that. |
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What are the relevant tickets?
None. Follow up on #3843.
Also resolves this sentry error from CI.
Description (What does it do?)
Adds the missing settings from mitodl/ol-django#408
This pull request adds new configuration options for the PostHog integration, specifically introducing circuit breaker settings to improve reliability when communicating with the PostHog API. The changes allow the application to better handle slow or failed requests to PostHog by specifying cooldown and trip threshold durations.
PostHog circuit breaker configuration:
POSTHOG_CIRCUIT_BREAKER_COOLDOWN_SECONDSandPOSTHOG_CIRCUIT_BREAKER_TRIP_THRESHOLD_SECONDSas optional environment variables inapp.jsonto document and enable these settings for deployment environments.mitxpro/settings.pywith default values (60seconds for cooldown and6seconds for trip threshold), allowing the application to control how long to wait before retrying PostHog after a failure and how long a request can take before the circuit breaker trips.These changes enhance the robustness of the PostHog integration by preventing repeated failures from impacting the system.
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How can this be tested?
The Posthog flags should keep working.
Additional Context
These settings were missed during the merge of #3843.