[tor-bugs] #13709 [Metrics Website]: Track some Dir Auth network stats

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#13709: Track some Dir Auth network stats
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     Reporter:  grarpamp         |      Owner:
         Type:  enhancement      |     Status:  needs_information
     Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:
    Component:  Metrics Website  |    Version:
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Comment (by grarpamp):

 Beyond curiosity and coolness, this is not for users. The dirauths
 (set of 10) are a separate bootstrap nondistributed set of auths,
 'dirbytes' commingles that subset of 10 and thus doesn't call out
 their purpose. The above stats are relevant to anyone wishing to
 deploy parallel tor nets such as for data or any other purpose.
 They'd want to see them to provision boxes accordingly ahead of
 time. ie: If they expect 10k/100k/1M/10M/100M users, what will their
 dirauths (that they essentially pay for) roughly look like at the
 ISP/box level. Tor at scale is a representative live model that
 can't be generated in a tiny simulation sandbox beforehand. Stats
 relavent to tor for the same reasons. ie: any future dirauths

 You can probably get all this from 'netstat', aggregate and divide
 by 10 if you want and remember to update on dirauth change.

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