Document how to log/view Telemetry information locally
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A while back I set myself up a personal Rollbar for some work, before getting access to the main Dark one.
A solution to work without requiring someone to sign up for an account would be best.
I still haven't touched Honeycomb much, so not sure if that's relevant as well?
Are there other things like this to be split out?
Telemetry can be printed to console if we set DARK_CONFIG_TELEMETRY_EXPORTER=console, which is the default. So there should be telemetry info locally already in rundir/logs/fsharp-bwdserver.log (or the various other fsharp logs).
That said, it's not super usable - in fact, I tend to use honeycomb for my local telemetry as well, when I need it (usually to profile something).
A thing that occurred to me is that you (and anyone) could just set up a free honeycomb account and add the credentials to config/dev.
Yeah, that's an option. Maybe we go with that recommendation for now. Imo, ideally a dev doesn't have to create any accounts to work on the repo, but I can extract that to a separate ticket.
Well, I guess they don't actually have to, they can just ignore telemetry.