feat: increase message and batch sizes

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -62,4 +62,4 @@ jobs:
 
             - name: Run posthog tests
               run: |
-                  python setup.py test
+                  pytest --verbose --timeout=30

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 3.1.0 - 2023-12-04
+
+1. Increase maximum event size and batch size
+
 ## 3.0.2 - 2023-08-17
 
 1. Returns the current flag property with $feature_flag_called events, to make it easier to use in experiments

posthog/consumer.py

@@ -12,11 +12,12 @@
 except ImportError:
     from Queue import Empty
 
-MAX_MSG_SIZE = 32 << 10
 
-# Our servers only accept batches less than 500KB. Here limit is set slightly
-# lower to leave space for extra data that will be added later, eg. "sentAt".
-BATCH_SIZE_LIMIT = 475000
+MAX_MSG_SIZE = 900 * 1024  # 900KiB per event
+
+# The maximum request body size is currently 20MiB, let's be conservative
+# in case we want to lower it in the future.
+BATCH_SIZE_LIMIT = 5 * 1024 * 1024
 
 
 class Consumer(Thread):
@@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ def next(self):
                 item = queue.get(block=True, timeout=self.flush_interval - elapsed)
                 item_size = len(json.dumps(item, cls=DatetimeSerializer).encode())
                 if item_size > MAX_MSG_SIZE:
-                    self.log.error("Item exceeds 32kb limit, dropping. (%s)", str(item))
+                    self.log.error("Item exceeds 900kib limit, dropping. (%s)", str(item))
                     continue
                 items.append(item)
                 total_size += item_size

posthog/test/test_consumer.py

@@ -145,15 +145,20 @@ def test_pause(self):
     def test_max_batch_size(self):
         q = Queue()
         consumer = Consumer(q, TEST_API_KEY, flush_at=100000, flush_interval=3)
-        track = {"type": "track", "event": "python event", "distinct_id": "distinct_id"}
+        properties = {}
+        for n in range(0, 500):
+            properties[str(n)] = "one_long_property_value_to_build_a_big_event"
+        track = {"type": "track", "event": "python event", "distinct_id": "distinct_id", "properties": properties}
         msg_size = len(json.dumps(track).encode())
-        # number of messages in a maximum-size batch
-        n_msgs = int(475000 / msg_size)
+        # Let's capture 8MB of data to trigger two batches
+        n_msgs = int(8_000_000 / msg_size)
 
         def mock_post_fn(_, data, **kwargs):
             res = mock.Mock()
             res.status_code = 200
-            self.assertTrue(len(data.encode()) < 500000, "batch size (%d) exceeds 500KB limit" % len(data.encode()))
+            request_size = len(data.encode())
+            # Batches close after the first message bringing it bigger than BATCH_SIZE_LIMIT, let's add 10% of margin
+            self.assertTrue(request_size < (5 * 1024 * 1024) * 1.1, "batch size (%d) higher than limit" % request_size)
             return res
 
         with mock.patch("posthog.request._session.post", side_effect=mock_post_fn) as mock_post:

posthog/version.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-VERSION = "3.0.2"
+VERSION = "3.1.0"
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     print(VERSION, end="")  # noqa: T201

setup.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
         "flake8-print",
         "pre-commit",
     ],
-    "test": ["mock>=2.0.0", "freezegun==0.3.15", "pylint", "flake8", "coverage", "pytest"],
+    "test": ["mock>=2.0.0", "freezegun==0.3.15", "pylint", "flake8", "coverage", "pytest", "pytest-timeout"],
     "sentry": ["sentry-sdk", "django"],
 }