<html><head></head><body> <div>Agreed . My relay is well</div><div>Below all of the thresholds for “overloaded”, for gods sake 64gb ram and 12 cpus should be adequate for a tor relay? 10gb connection?</div><div><br></div><div>I’ve asked multiple times for help trying to figure this out and have gotten zero response. </div><div><br></div><div>It seems to be very difficult to get any help with running relays. I’d think the tor community would want exit relays running, and would be more forthcoming with information, <caret></caret>but the docs and help sections are almost useless.</div><div><br></div><div>The troubleshooting page for an overloaded relay mentions running metricsport, but with no instructions or even links to anywhere to explain how to do this.</div><div><br></div><div>The relay search/status website shows 2 extra links below some relays but not others, I get no extra info on mine.</div><div><br></div><div>My relay has a dirport of 9030 in my config and nyx confirms this. The relay status website says I have no dirport configured.</div><div><br></div><div>There are so many little issues at play, you’d think this would be simpler to have everything running.</div><div><br></div><div id="protonmail_mobile_signature_block"><div>Sent from ProtonMail for iOS</div></div> <div><br></div><div><br></div>On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 21:29, torix via tor-relays <<a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org" class="">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"> My relays (Aramis) marked overloaded don't make any sense either. Two of the ones marked with orange are the two with the lowest traffic I have (2-5 MiB/s and 4-9 MiB/s - not pushing any limits here); the third one with that host has more traffic and is fine.<br><br>So far this indicator seems to be no help to me.<br><br>--Torix<br><br>Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.<br><br>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br><br>On Friday, October 1st, 2021 at 12:22 PM, David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org> wrote:<br><br>> On 01 Oct (03:08:20), Andreas Kempe wrote:<br>><br>> > Hello David!<br>> ><br>> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 08:22:08AM -0400, David Goulet wrote:<br>> ><br>> > > On 24 Sep (12:36:17), lists@for-privacy.net wrote:<br>> > ><br>> > > > On Thursday, September 23, 2021 3:39:08 PM CEST Silvia/Hiro wrote:<br>> > > ><br>> > > > > When a relay is in the overloaded state we show an amber dot next to the<br>> > > > ><br>> > > > > relay nickname.<br>> > > > ><br>> > > > > Nice thing. This flag has noticed me a few days ago.<br>> > > ><br>> > > > > If you noticed your relay is overloaded, please check the following<br>> > > > ><br>> > > > > support article to find out how you can recover to a "normal" state:<br>> > > > ><br>> > > > > https://support.torproject.org/relay-operators/relay-bridge-overloaded/<br>> > > > ><br>> > > ><br>> > > > A question about Enabling Metricsport. Is definitely Prometheus necessary?<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Or can the Metrics Port write into a LogFile / TextFile?<br>> > ><br>> > > The output format is Prometheus but you don't need a prometheus server to get<br>> > ><br>> > > it.<br>> > ><br>> > > Once opened, you can simply fetch it like this:<br>> > ><br>> > > wget http://<IP_OF_METRICSPORT>:<METRICS_PORT>/metrics -O /tmp/output.txt<br>> > ><br>> > > or<br>> > ><br>> > > curl http://<IP_OF_METRICSPORT>:<METRICS_PORT>/metrics -o /tmp/output.txt<br>> ><br>> > I've only ever gotten an empty reply when trying to extract metrics<br>> ><br>> > and I still do on Tor 4.6.7. I have some vague memory of the metrics<br>> ><br>> > previously only being for hidden services.<br>> ><br>> > All the metrics mentioned in the overload guide[1] seem to be missing.<br>> ><br>> > Having a quick look at the Git repository, it seems that only<br>> ><br>> > 0.4.71-alpha and latest master contain the necessary changes for these<br>> ><br>> > metrics.<br>> ><br>> > Is my assumption correct or am I doing something wrong?<br>><br>> Correct, relay metrics are only available on >= 0.4.7.1-alpha. Hopefully, we<br>><br>> should have an 0.4.7 stable by end of year (or around that time).<br>><br>> David<br>><br>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>><br>> xX/GscsnOTkKMqPla5JDOc2EqZ3GG/imhQ7gx+DQhVE=<br>><br>> tor-relays mailing list<br>><br>> tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br>><br>> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br>_______________________________________________<br>tor-relays mailing list<br>tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br>https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>