How do you monitor the tor relay server and the relay itself, on a remote box? Zabbix seemed to have less overhead and simpler setup than nagios or icinga, so i started to set it up. Then i saw the note on https://www.torservers.net/wiki/setup/zabbix that they do not use it anymore, and i am wondering what is wrong with it.
How do you monitor the tor relay server and the relay itself, on a remote box?
Since I already had an Icinga server installation in place, adding a few extra checks to remotely monitor Tor node ports (OR, Dir, and SSH) was simple. Also, some ISPs offer simple monitoring for their customers. -Ralph
How do you monitor the tor relay server and the relay itself, on a remote box?
I like https://www.statuscake.com/ for this and their free plan is sufficient. I'm not affiliated with them, I just like the service. It constantly checks for a response from both the Dir and OR ports of my relays, using monitoring endpoints around the world, and notifies me of downtime. It also has a nice feature where it can look for a specific response from the Dir port (i.e, parse http://relay1.example.com/tor/server/authority and make sure the fingerprint matches).
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