Hi All. We've been using GrowthBook for about half...
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Hi All. We've been using GrowthBook for about half a year now without any major issues. Recently however we've encounter a problem with the metrics page. For context we have auto discovered our metrics from BigQuery (Connected to GA) and have over 2000 metrics loaded in. When attempting to access the metrics page the browser will become unresponsive and it needs opening in a new tab to fix. I suspect this is due to the lack of paging and the quantity of metrics is overwhelming the renderer. I've opened a github issue https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook/issues/3152. While I wait for this to be resolved is there an API workaround for configuring metrics? There are many auto discovered ones that are not used but of course I can't use the front end to clean these up.
r
Hi Stephen, thank you for bringing this to our attention and for creating a bug report to put this on the Engineering team's radar. We have a REST API here< >that can be used for Metrics config and management. Hope this helps 🙏
m
Hi Kathy. Thanks for sending through the docs for that. I've used it to clean up our metrics so we are down to about 600. The page however is still unresponsive with this amount of metrics (does load now but freezes). Do you have any idea when this issue might be addressed? It seems like something changed as this wasn't previously an issue.
r
Hi Stephen, this is on our radar but we don't have a timeline for this. I will relay to the team that you are still facing an issue after deleting some metrics. Out of interest, how many metrics do you currently have post deletion?
f
Ohhh sorry 600*
Hi Stephen, are you able to replicate this on another device? Asking because we have a few customers who are cloud hosting who have 1000s of metrics and haven't reported the same.
The Engineering did confirm that it is somewhat demanding on browser memory, so maybe this issue is device-specific?
Could you try this on a different device like a MacBook (or similar that is high powered) and confirm if you are still experiencing the same?
m
Hi Natasha. So rather than device specific this seems to be browser specific.
f
Ah interesting, which browser and browser version did it not work on?
m
Just doing more digging it turns out it's not browser specific but extension specific
"React Developer Tools" when enabled will cause the metrics page to crash.
I've updated the github issue with this information
It explains why other cloud users have been using the page fine. We're a small company so developers manage the AB tests and all of us have this extension
f
Ah perfect, thank you for the information