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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reading reddit_experiments/init.py at line 135 and inspect how often the log line is emitted and what experiment ID data is available there. Define whether completion means one message per experiment ID per process or a time-window limit, then run the existing test suite to verify the logging behavior.

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https://github.com/reddit/experiments.py/blob/c5f8373d051845ab550a9ae65041afcc4c9f996b/reddit_experiments/__init__.py#L135 This log line has the potential to be extremely verbose. Could we potentially rate limit logging on it, either by time window or just have it display once the first time it's seen in a given process run for each experiment ID? Discovered this by accident in an older version of Baseplate before it was spun out.

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