[tor-onions] Onion Service Monitoring

[madhatton at shaw.ca]

I like the concept of a tor search engine but it is way to complicated for 
me, I am in my eighties, and I am not a geek, so not knowing what this onion 
stuff is I will say goodby Mike.


-----Original Message----- 
From: shadow
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2021 12:05 AM
To: tor-onions at lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-onions] Onion Service Monitoring

Hey all,

following up on this, we wrote a small prometheus-onion-exporter in go:

https://github.com/systemli/prometheus-onion-service-exporter

Maybe it helps you monitoring your onion sites.

cheers shadow

On 31.12.19 18:15, shadow wrote:
> Thank you for your answers,
>
> I will checkout the different solutions and see what fits for my usecase.
>
> Alecs piece of software was a good first starting point for and shows
> that it is a complexer problem.
>
> I hope you all are doing well and have a happy new year,
>
> shadow
>
> On 28.12.19 17:50, shadow wrote:
>> Dear fellow Onion Service operators,
>>
>> I'm curios how you monitor the availability of your onion services?
>>
>> I implemented a solution with icinga2 check commands. It basically
>> queries the onion service via torsocks and check_tcp command [1].
>>
>>>
>>> object CheckCommand "check_tor_onion" {
>>>   command = [ "torsocks", PluginDir + "/check_tcp" ]
>>>   timeout = 6m
>>>   arguments = {
>>>     "-H" = "$hostname$"
>>>     "-p" = "$port$"
>>>     "-t" = "$timeout$"
>>>   }
>>> }
>>
>> This solution is kind of flaky and produces a lot of mail noise, even if
>> I run it with large timeout value (360s), check attempts and retry
>> intervals.
>>
>> Recently I came across the tool called hsprober [2], which looks like a
>> more compelling option. though it requires a prometheus setup.
>>
>> Since it is a network, where connections constantly looses connections,
>> I would like to know how you treat this flakyness. Regardless of which
>> software stack you use, I'm interested in your concept for monitoring
>> your onion services from the outside (user side) and from the inside
>> (server side). And also which tools do you use.
>>
>> Thank you for any answers and opinions. Have a happy new year.
>>
>> shadow
>>
>>
>> [1] - https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/man/check_tcp.html
>> [2] - https://git.autistici.org/ale/hsprober
>>
>>
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