Hi all :)

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: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionprobe

It has basic functionality, including metrics exporting to Prometheus, but still needs work to address more general use cases: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionprobe/-/blob/main/TODO...

A summary about what it currently does was made during the last Demo Day: https://gitlab.torproject.org/rhatto/onionprobe/-/blob/main/docs/demoday.md

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

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 :)

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

Current specification is available at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/oniongroove/-/blob/feature/...

It's is about to be reviewed and merged in the main branch: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/oniongroove/-/merge_request...

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 :)

2. Started research/summarization for existing proposals on Onion Service usability improvements, to be published soon. Related ticket: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onion-support/-/issues/64

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