Hi all, I have been running my relay for about a year now and about two weeks ago my relay traffic went close to zero [1].
Any ideas as to why?
You relay's traffic went to ~zero because of problems with a tor network bandwidth scanner that (also) decides how much traffic you will get.
Maatuska's bandwidth scanner is down since 2017-04-14 07:00. Maatuska's bw scanner is the bw authority with the highest measurements for many relays, if it no longer provides data your mean measured value and consensus weight will fall.
For details see the last measurement vote by maatuska before it's scanner went offline:
2017-04-14 06:00:00 longclaw=28 moria1=22 gabelmoo=26 Faravahar=33 maatuska=40
afte maatuska went offline: 2017-04-14 07:00:00 maatuska=None longclaw=28 gabelmoo=26 Faravahar=33 moria1=22 2017-04-14 08:00:00 moria1=22 Faravahar=33 longclaw=28 gabelmoo=26 maatuska=None
Using data from collector.torproject.org I created an easy to search/grep output file that contains all bwauth votes for all relays between 2017-04-01 and 2017-04-19.
You can simply grep/search for your relay(s) nickname or fingerprint to see if maatuska was the mean value or above the mean value for your relay before it went offline. If it was, you are affected by its downtime.
https://github.com/nusenu/tor-network-observations/tree/master/bwauthvotes (this file is big: ~29MB compressed, ~464MB uncrompressed)
File format: date nickname/fingerprint measurement-votes