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Purpose

Document the dynamic sampling and retry queue support added to the Moesif analytics publisher.

Two things make this more than an additive change:

  • The retry queue is enabled by default, and it replaces the previous synchronous retry behaviour (3 attempts, 10 seconds apart, on the publishing thread, then drop). Existing deployments change behaviour without changing configuration, so the docs have to mention that.
  • The Moesif integration guide is already lengthy covering setup, header capture, body capture, masking, the full event reference and troubleshooting on a single page. Adding the documentation for this feature in the same page would make it too long.

Goals

  • Document all nine new [apim.analytics.properties] settings with their types, defaults and valid ranges.
  • Clearly explain three non-obvious points:
    • Sample rates are defined in the Moesif dashboard, not in deployment.toml. WSO2 API Manager only opts in and supplies a fallback rate.
    • Sampled-in events carry a weight, so Moesif metrics still reflect full traffic volume even though not every call appears as an event.
    • The retry queue is in-memory and not persisted. Queued events are lost on restart, and it can hold up to retry_buffer_size events per Moesif key in heap during a Moesif outage.
  • Reorganize the Moesif documentation into pages that each have one clear section, so it stays navigable as the publisher gains features.
  • Keep every existing URL and inbound link working.

Approach

  • Reorganization. The Moesif Analytics section goes from two pages to six. moesif-integration-guide.md keeps its filename and URL as the entry point, and retains the setup flow, the consolidated configuration parameter table and general troubleshooting. Header and body capture move to moesif-data-capture.md, masking to moesif-data-masking.md, and the two event-type parameter tables to moesif-event-reference.md. Moved content is carried over as-is apart from heading levels and link rewrites, so this part of the diff is a move rather than a rewrite. moesif-analytics-dashboards.md is untouched.

  • New content. moesif-sampling-and-reliability.md documents both features, following the structure the existing body-capture section already uses: what it does, the opt-in deployment.toml snippet, a configuration reference table, behaviour subsections, and verification via the log lines the publisher actually emits. It covers rate resolution (per-user, then per-company, then global), weight-based metric extrapolation, fail-open behaviour when the Moesif app config cannot be fetched, which HTTP failures are retried versus dropped, drop-oldest FIFO eviction when the buffer is full, and sizing guidance. It also records that dynamic sampling applies to the direct-key (type = "moesif") path only, while the retry queue applies to both paths.

  • Link integrity. All eight in-repo links point at the integration guide, whose URL is preserved, so none need changing, and redirects.yml needs no new entries since no path is removed or renamed, and the new pages never existed at an older path. The eleven same-page anchor links inside the guide were audited: six still resolve on the same page and seven were rewritten to {{base_path}} cross-page links. Moved section headings were kept byte-identical so their anchors are relocated rather than renamed, and the overview gained a links list to the sibling pages so anyone arriving from a stale deep link can see where content went.

  • Configuration catalog. The nine properties were added to en/tools/config-catalog-generator/data/configs.json and the sample apim.analytics.toml, and en/docs/reference/config-catalog.md was regenerated with the generator.

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Summary

  • Added Moesif documentation for dynamic sampling, retry queues, data capture, data masking, and event references.
  • Documented nine new apim.analytics.properties settings with defaults, types, ranges, and behavior.
  • Reorganized Moesif Analytics documentation into focused pages while preserving existing URLs.
  • Updated navigation, configuration catalog data, and the generated configuration catalog.
  • Documented sampling behavior, retry handling, queue limits, memory considerations, and troubleshooting guidance.

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The pull request expands Moesif Analytics documentation into separate pages for data capture, sampling and reliability, privacy and masking, and event references. It updates the integration guide and navigation. It adds sampling and retry-buffer parameters to configuration catalogs and generator metadata. The documentation describes payload limits, masking behavior, event fields, sampling rules, retry states, queue limits, logging, and troubleshooting.

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Inline comments:
In `@en/docs/monitoring/api-analytics/moesif-analytics/moesif-data-capture.md`:
- Around line 203-205: Update the Markdown code fence surrounding the analytics
log example in moesif-data-capture.md to specify text as its language,
preserving the existing example content.
- Around line 104-120: Update the “What Is Not Captured” list to qualify the
missing Content-Length exclusion: bodies without a Content-Length header are
skipped only when capture_payloads_without_content_length is false, while the
existing reference to the corresponding configuration section remains.

In `@en/docs/monitoring/api-analytics/moesif-analytics/moesif-event-reference.md`:
- Around line 74-78: Add the omitted captured-field rows to the
apim_event_faulty table for responseContentType, requestHeaders,
responseHeaders, requestContentType, requestBody, responseBody, and both
transfer-encoding fields, documenting each field’s capture conditions
consistently with apim_event_response. Keep the statement that faulty events
share these captured fields accurate.

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- Around line 142-144: Update the retry-queue guidance near “Verifying and
Troubleshooting the Retry Queue” to state that undelivered events are queued
only when retry buffering is enabled via retry_buffer_enabled; clarify that no
queue is available when it is disabled, while preserving the existing
troubleshooting link.

In
`@en/docs/monitoring/api-analytics/moesif-analytics/moesif-sampling-and-reliability.md`:
- Around line 69-70: Update the sampling behavior statement to limit the no-call
claim to event publishing: replace “no HTTP call to Moesif at all” with wording
that specifies no event-publish HTTP call, while preserving the separate
sampling refresh requests.
- Around line 117-125: Add the text language identifier to the opening fences
for all six log-output code blocks in the Moesif sampling and reliability
documentation, including the block containing the dynamic sampling and
configuration-refresh examples and the other referenced blocks. Leave their
contents unchanged.
- Around line 84-88: Update the “Sampling fails open” explanation in the
sampling and reliability documentation to clarify that sampling_fallback_rate
controls behavior before the first successful configuration fetch; only its
default value of 100 publishes every event, while 0 publishes none.

In `@en/tools/config-catalog-generator/data/configs.json`:
- Around line 1014-1019: Update the retry_buffer_size description to state that
capacity is counted in queued batches, the oldest queued batches are evicted,
and oversized batches are dropped when applicable, matching the documented
batch-level behavior.
- Around line 981-987: Update the sampling_enabled description in the
configuration catalog to state that sampling applies only when type is 'moesif'
with a direct moesifKey, and is not used for the Moesif microservice path; then
regenerate the corresponding config-catalog documentation.
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Add language identifiers to the log-output fences.

The fences at Lines [119], [126], [190], [226], [233], and [240] in this page, plus the fence at Lines [203-205] in the data-capture page, omit a language identifier. Add text to each opening fence to keep the documentation lint-clean.

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In
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at line 119, Update the six Markdown log-output code fences in
moesif-sampling-and-reliability.md to specify the text language identifier on
each opening fence, including the fences at the referenced locations, so MD040
is satisfied.

Apply the same fix in
`@en/docs/monitoring/api-analytics/moesif-analytics/moesif-data-capture.md` around
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In `@en/docs/monitoring/api-analytics/moesif-analytics/moesif-data-capture.md`:
- Around line 96-99: Update the JSON entry in the body-format table to clarify
that JSON is captured or serialized as a structured, searchable object rather
than sent as-is or guaranteed to preserve the original bytes; keep the existing
descriptions for plain text, XML/SOAP, and binary unchanged.

In `@en/tools/config-catalog-generator/data/configs.json`:
- Around line 1014-1051: Update the retry_buffer_size, retry_interval_seconds,
retry_log_multiplier, retry_drain_burst_size, and retry_drain_batch_delay_ms
entries to populate possible with their runtime-accepted ranges and revise each
description to document the same constraints. Keep the documented defaults and
existing behavioral descriptions intact while ensuring the catalog matches the
validation rules.

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In
`@en/docs/monitoring/api-analytics/moesif-analytics/moesif-sampling-and-reliability.md`:
- Line 119: Update the six Markdown log-output code fences in
moesif-sampling-and-reliability.md to specify the text language identifier on
each opening fence, including the fences at the referenced locations, so MD040
is satisfied.

Apply the same fix in
`@en/docs/monitoring/api-analytics/moesif-analytics/moesif-data-capture.md` around
lines 203 - 205: The same missing language identifier occurs in this log-output
fence.
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