[tor-bugs] #4407 [Metrics Utilities]: Basic Monitoring for Large Scale Events

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#4407: Basic Monitoring for Large Scale Events
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 Reporter:  atagar             |          Owner:  karsten
     Type:  project            |         Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal             |      Milestone:         
Component:  Metrics Utilities  |        Version:         
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 At present we don't seem to have alarming infrastructure or anything else
 that would notify us of events (even noisy attack attempts) within the
 network. Bandwidth authorities are generating the heuristics congestion
 attacks need to modify to effect client behavior, so we should be able to
 trivially detect large deltas (for instance, if half the network suddenly
 seems to vanish) and get a notification.

 I don't believe that we should invest too much effort here since this
 probably isn't an arms race we'd do very well in. However, we shouldn't
 rely on users to notify us of DoS attempts or other particularly noisy
 attacks.

 Putting this under metrics to get Karsten's thoughts. Maybe this is
 somehow already being monitored? If not then general purpose alarming
 (which could also replace my consensus tracker script) might be a fun
 project to hack on later, and possibly be a good candidate for GSoC next
 year. :)

 Cheers! -Damian

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