Hi I have operated many relays over the years. I only started using tor metrics to check up on my relays for maybe 3-5 years. Over the last year I have noticed that my uptime has reset randomly sometimes every couple of days sometimes every couple of weeks. When I first started they were up for months at a time. Now I know what you may be thinking that my relays are just going down for whatever reason. Well that's not the case as I do monitor them independently also. The thing is they all go out and reset the uptime at exactly the same time. Now I use 3 separate vps providers for 17 middle relays. When I go to check them they all are showing the exact same new uptime. Can you help me to understand this. Thanks a lot for all that you do. Regards Phil (search masstor relays)
Metric has been odd. My first seen date has been correctly set back to 2017. It was saying two years old before for some many months. My exit mycontribution 51AE5656C81CD417479253A6363A123A007A2233 is busy but now little less, and despite no throttling by ISP, and fast connection my consensus weight fell from some 50.000 downhill over weeks, and a few days ago fell off a cliff in a day from 18,000 to 20. How and why? Gerry -----Original Message----- From: wxw--- via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> Sent: 13 July 2026 00:40 To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Cc: wxw@safe-mail.net Subject: [tor-relays] Tor Metrics Hi I have operated many relays over the years. I only started using tor metrics to check up on my relays for maybe 3-5 years. Over the last year I have noticed that my uptime has reset randomly sometimes every couple of days sometimes every couple of weeks. When I first started they were up for months at a time. Now I know what you may be thinking that my relays are just going down for whatever reason. Well that's not the case as I do monitor them independently also. The thing is they all go out and reset the uptime at exactly the same time. Now I use 3 separate vps providers for 17 middle relays. When I go to check them they all are showing the exact same new uptime. Can you help me to understand this. Thanks a lot for all that you do. Regards Phil (search masstor relays) _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list -- tor-relays@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to tor-relays-leave@lists.torproject.org
Hi, We have been having some issues with our metrics pipeline. We had to replace Collector, the service that archives Tor network documents, with the Rust rewrite (collector-rs). When Collector has trouble publishing data, Onionoo, which feeds the metrics website, ends up missing data. As you can see in https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/onionoo/-/work_item..., I have partially fixed the "first seen" field. When did you start these relays? If they were started before 2024, the "first seen" field will not have been fixed for them, because we are still missing some of that data in our database. That said, we are updating our pipeline and slowly fixing all of these issues. I hope this helps! Cheers, -hiro On 13/07/2026 01:39, wxw--- via tor-relays wrote:
Hi I have operated many relays over the years. I only started using tor metrics to check up on my relays for maybe 3-5 years. Over the last year I have noticed that my uptime has reset randomly sometimes every couple of days sometimes every couple of weeks. When I first started they were up for months at a time.
Now I know what you may be thinking that my relays are just going down for whatever reason. Well that's not the case as I do monitor them independently also.
The thing is they all go out and reset the uptime at exactly the same time. Now I use 3 separate vps providers for 17 middle relays. When I go to check them they all are showing the exact same new uptime. Can you help me to understand this.
Thanks a lot for all that you do.
Regards
Phil (search masstor relays) _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list -- tor-relays@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to tor-relays-leave@lists.torproject.org
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