[onionmx] Meeting?

[ale]

On 02/27/2018 07:42 PM, intrigeri wrote:
>
> What if we made a different daemon (decoupled from onionMX) that
> checked the health status of services over onion services, such as
> learning some information via the tor control port about the state of
> tor and then decide what to do with it:
>
>  - check tor has bootstrapped
>  - the Python stem library could provide something to check if
>    a hidden service is alive or not and return
>  - can check if you can receive a descriptor or not
>  - check if rendezvous with service is possible
>  - understand timings/delays etc.

FWIW, this is exactly what hsprober does (besides exporting the
resulting measurements).

> Ale's check (https://git.autistici.org/ale/hsprober) seems opiniated
> towards exporting metrics to Prometheus.

That's because I have zero experience with icinga - I'd be happy to
extend it, if someone wants to clarify the requirements to me.

(or you could rewrite it with Python and stem, that would work too ;)


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