If I set up OnionBalance, and have two backend onion servers - how would I know if I need to add another onion server and balance it further?
I can easily monitor the CPU/Memory usage of the onion servers, but does that tell the whole story? I assume there's potentially other ways connection failures can occur...
-tom
On 3 Feb 2017, at 05:27, Tom Ritter tom@ritter.vg wrote:
If I set up OnionBalance, and have two backend onion servers - how would I know if I need to add another onion server and balance it further?
I can easily monitor the CPU/Memory usage of the onion servers, but does that tell the whole story? I assume there's potentially other ways connection failures can occur...
-tom
Standard website uptime and performance monitoring on the top-level .onion address and each of the backends would display most user-visible issues.
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Youjust use A reverse proxy, like squid is what alot of ppl use or nginx then regular monitoring should work, useing email notice is nice
Tom Ritter tom@ritter.vg skrev: (2 februari 2017 19:27:31 CET)
If I set up OnionBalance, and have two backend onion servers - how would I know if I need to add another onion server and balance it further?
I can easily monitor the CPU/Memory usage of the onion servers, but does that tell the whole story? I assume there's potentially other ways connection failures can occur...
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I concur with the discussion so far; once you are into the multi-tor-daemon deployments the "tuning" becomes rather organic.
I would look at network throughput on the tor nodes which are serving as reverse-proxies, and correlate that against load.
Frankly: Facebook currently delivers its entire onion service through 2 daemons per each of 3 onion addresses (www, cdn, sbx) for six daemons total; the chokepoint is far more likely to be the content-delivery backend.
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