[CT-586] [Feature] Improve tracking error message

[NicolasPA]

Is this your first time opening an issue?

• I have read the expectations for open source contributors

Describe the Feature

The tracking error "Error sending message, disabling tracking" should be more helpful by being more descriptive:

• It is not obvious that it is related to DBT's internal anonymous usage statistics.
• What "disabling" means also isn't clear, as far as I understand, it only disables it for the current execution, the next run will still have the error. Permanent disabling requires setting it in the profile or in environment variables as described here: https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/global-configs#send-anonymous-usage-stats

So I suggest this more descriptive message which could save people time:
Error sending anonymous usage statistics. Disabling tracking for this execution. If you wish to permanently disable tracking, see: https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/global-configs#send-anonymous-usage-stats .

In my case, I am using DBT 1.0.4 on Windows 10 in an environment without internet for regulatory reasons, so tracking can never happen.

Describe alternatives you've considered

1. Do users need to know that DBT internal tracking failed? You could show it only in debug mode when the --debug flag is used. But it still requires a more descriptive message, I think.
2. DBT could test if a connection to the internet exists, and silently disable tracking if it doesn't. But that's a bit more work than just editing an error message, and running DBT without internet probably doesn't represent a big percentage of use cases.

Who will this benefit?

Anyone using DBT without an internet connection.

Are you interested in contributing this feature?

Sure, I should be able to handle editing a string!

[jtcohen6]

@NicolasPA Agree + agree! Let's update this error message, and make it DebugLevel instead of WarnLevel.

dbt-core/core/dbt/events/types.py

Lines 2354 to 2359 in a2b3602

	@dataclass
	class DisableTracking(WarnLevel):
	code: str = "Z039"
	def message(self) -> str:
	return "Error sending message, disabling tracking"

Have at it :)