[metrics-team] temporary negative spike in tor relay count: real or bug?

[Karsten Loesing]

On 2017-07-17 12:25, Karsten Loesing wrote:
> On 2017-07-16 23:05, Karsten Loesing wrote:
>> On 2017-07-15 09:04, nusenu wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>
>> Hi nusenu,
>>
>>> is the massive temporary drop in relays as seen on the platform an
>>> version metrics graphs real?
>>>
>>> https://metrics.torproject.org/platforms.html
>>> https://metrics.torproject.org/versions.html
>>>
>>>
>>> It does not show here:
>>> https://metrics.torproject.org/relayflags.html
>>
>> This is most likely a bug.
>>
>> We recently updated one of the data-processing modules of the Tor
>> Metrics website, which overwrote the configuration file with a blank
>> one. This error went unnoticed for the weekend. Looks like the fix came
>> a few hours after the 72 hour mark for which recent descriptors are
>> available on CollecTor. So, we're missing a few hours of descriptors in
>> the database.
>>
>> I'm now re-importing descriptors since July 1, which should ideally fix
>> this bug. This may take a few more hours. If it doesn't fix the issue
>> over night, I'll take another look tomorrow.
> 
> Looks like the re-import over night didn't fix this issue and only
> introduced a new one with the relay flags graph. I'll look some more today.

Believe it or not, it's finally fixed!

If anything still looks broken, please let me know.

All the best,
Karsten


> 
> All the best,
> Karsten
> 
> 
>>
>> As always, thanks for pointing this out!
>>
>>> regards,
>>> nusenu
>>
>> All the best,
>> Karsten
>>
> 
> 


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