Hello Tor, hello world!
Below you'll find the highlights of Tor metrics team work done in February 2018.
On behalf of the Tor metrics team, Karsten
Made Relay Search [1] a first class citizen of Tor Metrics by hosting it on metrics.torproject.org.
[1] https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html
Released Onionoo 5.0-1.10.0 [2] and .1 [3] which finally fixed broken bandwidth graphs on Relay Search for newer relays.
[2] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-February/012903.html [3] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-February/012904.html
Added new links to Tor Metrics to download graph data as CSV files [4].
[4] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-February/012967.html
Deployed new metrics-bot badges for countries [5] and relays [6].
[5] https://twitter.com/TorAtlas/status/963688006841454593 [6] https://twitter.com/TorAtlas/status/964104753390252032
Held a discussion with bridge operators whether bridge contact information should be public or not [7], and asked the Tor Research Safety Board for advice on making a decision.
[7] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-February/014444.html
Released metrics-lib 2.2.0 and CollecTor 1.5.0 [8] which will allow sanitizing torproject.org web server logs once they are deployed.
[8] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-February/012959.html
Created open mailing list metrics-alerts@ [9] for receiving automated notifications for Tor Metrics service-related alerts.
[9] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/metrics-alerts
Tuned metrics-web module advbwdist, by halving the processing time and reducing the necessary memory to about 25%, to keep it operational [10].