Hello Tor, hello world!

Below you'll find the highlights of Tor metrics team work done in April and May 2019 as well as a few expected highlights for the current month, June 2019.

On behalf of the Tor metrics team, Karsten

April and May 2019:

Blogged about Collecting, Aggregating, and Presenting Data from The Tor Network [1] which concludes sponsored work [2] to document our pipeline and identify areas that could benefit from modernization.

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/collecting-aggregating-and-presenting-data-tor-n... [2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor13

Update OnionPerf circuit round-trip latencies graph [3] to contain lowest and highest values that are not considered outliers, similar to the whiskers in a box plot.

[3] https://metrics.torproject.org/onionperf-latencies.html

Added a new graph on OnionPerf throughput [4] including lowest and highest values that are not considered outliers.

[4] https://metrics.torproject.org/onionperf-throughput.html

Discussed including more detailed error codes [5] in OnionPerf's .tpf file output to better distinguish reasons behind failures and timeouts.

[5] https://bugs.torproject.org/29787

Started archiving bandwidth files [6, 7] from bandwidth authorities.

[6] https://metrics.torproject.org/collector.html#type-bandwidth-file [7] https://metrics.torproject.org/collector/archive/relay-descriptors/bandwidth...

Started improving operational monitoring of Tor Metrics services [8].

[8] https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/irl/metrics-cloud.git/

Put out new releases [9]: metrics-lib 2.6.0/2.6.1/2.6.2, CollecTor 1.9.0/1.9.1, ExoneraTor 4.1.0.

[9] https://dist.torproject.org/

June 2019:

Attend Mozilla All Hands to further discuss Tor performance and scaling topics and the role of the metrics team in future measurements and evaluations.

Import Tom's existing archive of bandwidth files [10].

[10] https://bugs.torproject.org/21378