[tor-project] Rhatto's Monthly Status Report, March 2022

Hi all :slight_smile:

This is my monthly status report for February 2022.

Main activities during the period:

0. Created the Onionprobe tool for testing and monitoring Onion
   Services: The Tor Project / Onion Services / Onionprobe · GitLab

   It has basic functionality, including metrics exporting to Prometheus, but still
   needs work to address more general use cases:
   TODO.md · main · The Tor Project / Onion Services / Onionprobe · GitLab

   A summary about what it currently does was made during the last Demo Day:
   docs/demoday.md · main · Silvio Rhatto / Onionprobe · GitLab

   Since that, Onionprobe got additional metrics and it's first refactor :slight_smile:

   Now I'm interested to know what the community would like to have in such a tool!
   Some special reporting output? Some auditing like Onionscan does?
   Please let me know :slight_smile:

1. Completed the initial version of Oniongroove specs for deployment and monitoring
   of Onion Service sites.

   Current specification is available at
   docs/specs.md · feature/specs · The Tor Project / Onion Services / Oniongroove · GitLab

   It's is about to be reviewed and merged in the main branch:
   Initial specs (!1) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Onion Services / Oniongroove · GitLab

   Right now the main intention with this document is to make sure we're in the right path
   towards an automated high availability deployment/monitoring suite, making acceptable
   choices to ease the handling of all complexities involved in hosting Onion Services.

   So comments and suggestions would be gladly welcomed :slight_smile:

2. Started research/summarization for existing proposals on Onion Service
   usability improvements, to be published soon. Related ticket:
   Sign in · GitLab

3. Many other activities related to Sponsor 123 such as meetings,
   plannings and support :slight_smile:

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Silvio Rhatto
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