Support for custom event loggers

[jdai8]

Description of the bug:

I'd like to implement a custom event logger that sends data about sync / build times to an internal metrics service.

It looks like currently there is some existing code around EventLoggingService and EventLogger that might allow me to do this. However, I'm confused whether this is a supported feature or not.

There is the com.google.idea.blaze.EventLogger extension point, but it doesn't seem to be actually called from anywhere.

I could also implement the EventLoggingService interface, but the comment on that class suggests it's meant to just forward events to EventLogger. So I'm not sure if this is the correct path or not.

I'm opening this as a bug because the code looks like it tries to support this.

Which category does this issue belong to?

Intellij

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Which Intellij IDE are you using? Please provide the specific version.

IntelliJ Ultimate 2024.1

What programming languages and tools are you using? Please provide specific versions.

Java

What Bazel plugin version are you using?

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Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

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[tpasternak]

Yeah, so it seems to be unused. Btw quite recently google commited an "intellijext" service for handling these logs here 3dcb251 but I don't know what's the status of that.

If it would work, you could even try to handle the logs in an external application.

@mai93 do you know what's the status of this?