Automatically clean up unused Algolia staging indexes

[larsyencken]

Context

When you do search work, and use -algolia in a branch name, you will get staging Algolia indexes created for your branch.

Problem

When you are finished with your branch, your staging server will get cleaned up, but the staging Algolia indexes will not be pruned -- they will linger on in Algolia.

Workaround

We periodically just go and click delete on a bunch of out of date indexes there.

[danyx23]

Matthieu said that there might be some automatic cleanup but it's not clear if this applies to staging servers

[mlbrgl]

(yes that's true about apps, but not sure about indexes)

[danyx23]

@Marigold would it be easy to add deleting algolia indexes when the staging servers are deleted? That would probably be the best way of solving this.

[danyx23]

@Marigold ping :)

[Marigold]

Uh, where can I find these indexes, please? I've created a PR with name algolia-delete-index which should create algolia index, but I don't see any in Algolia UI (I even ran make reindex from the staging server). @marcelgerber what am I missing?

[marcelgerber]

@Marigold you need to be looking at the owid-staging Algolia application, not live. You have access to both under same account.

This link should bring you directly to it: https://dashboard.algolia.com/apps/74GKBOIDJQ/indices

[Marigold]

Fixed by https://github.com/owid/owid-grapher/pull/3777