Background

As we begin to migrate instruments to the Metrics Platform, we should monitor the size of the ext.wikimediaEvents RL module (and others) for significant changes. Fortunately, Performance-Team publish this dashboard, which should make this process trivial.

FWIW I predict that migrating instruments to the Metrics Platform will decrease the size of the ext.wikimediaEvents RL module because:

1. It will minimise the number of inconsistently-named event properties, which don't compress well; and
2. The stream configs will contain repeated strings, which compress well
3. Per-instrument sampling configuration variables and code can be removed as the Metrics Platform client can handle per-stream sampling

However, if the ext.wikimediaEvents RL module becomes too unwieldy, then we'll have to minimise the amount of bytes used to configure the Metrics Platform client.

This task is a placeholder for that work.