implements tracking for user profile changes

Author: jakobhero

components/server/src/user/user-deletion-service.ts

@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ export class UserDeletionService {
                 bitbucket_slug: "deleted-user",
                 email: "deleted-user",
                 full_name: "deleted-user",
+                name: "deleted-user",
             },
         });
     }

components/server/src/workspace/gitpod-server-impl.ts

@@ -421,6 +421,9 @@ export class GitpodServerImpl implements GitpodServerWithTracing, Disposable {
         const user = this.checkUser("updateLoggedInUser");
         await this.guardAccess({ kind: "user", subject: user }, "update");
 
+        //hang on to user profile before it's overwritten for analytics below
+        const oldProfile = { name: user.fullName, ...user.additionalData?.profile };
+
         const allowedFields: (keyof User)[] = ["avatarUrl", "fullName", "additionalData"];
         for (const p of allowedFields) {
             if (p in partialUser) {
@@ -429,6 +432,28 @@ export class GitpodServerImpl implements GitpodServerWithTracing, Disposable {
         }
 
         await this.userDB.updateUserPartial(user);
+
+        //track event and user profile if profile of partialUser changed
+        const newProfile = { name: partialUser.fullName, ...partialUser.additionalData?.profile };
+        if (newProfile) {
+            if (
+                !oldProfile ||
+                newProfile.emailAddress != oldProfile.emailAddress ||
+                newProfile.companyName != oldProfile.companyName ||
+                newProfile.name != oldProfile.name
+            ) {
+                this.analytics.track({
+                    userId: user.id,
+                    event: "profile_changed",
+                    properties: { new: newProfile, old: oldProfile },
+                });
+                this.analytics.identify({
+                    userId: user.id,
+                    traits: { email: newProfile.emailAddress, company: newProfile.companyName, name: newProfile.name },
+                });
+            }
+        }
+
         return user;
     }