It should be fairly easy to emit a generic event with just timestamps. It'd be neat if we could have some free form json and a event type int that could be used to parse into a MessageLite object. Alternatively we could have custom UI for each event type, but that'd be a large maintenance burden.
A bare bones solution exists and has been checked in. However, after https://codereview.chromium.org/2916133002/ lands, it will increase the nudge delay on user events to be extremely long, which is obnoxious when trying to create events from sync-internals. We should think about possible workarounds.
Comment 1 by bugdroid1@chromium.org
, May 25 2017