[tor-bugs] #16537 [Tor]: Allow onion services to publish voluntary usage stats

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#16537: Allow onion services to publish voluntary usage stats
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 Reporter:  arma              |          Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor               |        Version:
 Keywords:  SponsorR, tor-hs  |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                    |         Points:
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 I would like to tell the world about the load and popularity of my onion
 service. In particular, how many connection requests I've received, and
 how many of those I managed to reach the clients on, and how many
 rendezvous circuits I used on average when reaching rendezvous points, and
 so on.

 One option is to put my statistics into my onion service descriptor --
 then folks who want to record it over time can fetch it over time and
 record it as they like (e.g. by remembering the output of the
 HS_DESC_CONTENT event). (Even post proposal 224, they can do this, if they
 know my onion address name.)

 I think this is in the "if somebody wrote it adequately, we'd take the
 patch" category.

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