[tor-bugs] #9199 [BridgeDB]: Rethink the logging of BridgeDB

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#9199: Rethink the logging of BridgeDB
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 Reporter:  asn       |          Owner:                   
     Type:  task      |         Status:  needs_information
 Priority:  normal    |      Milestone:                   
Component:  BridgeDB  |        Version:                   
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Changes (by sysrqb):

  * status:  new => needs_information


Comment:

 Nearly finished with an initial branch. some thoughts/questions:
 a) Should we scrub the bridge's fingerprint when safe logging is not
 disabled? It can easily be used to retrieve the IP addr via Atlas, etc.
 Maybe we should hash the fingerprint by default so various aspects of the
 log file are linkable?
 b) Using the extended nickname will probably not be in v1 of this patch.
 It will be a little invasive to retrieve/store all the info we need.
 c) I think providing a heartbeat is a nice idea. How do you feel about
 displaying uptime, user GEOIP stats, OS stats (based on user-agent) over
 the past n hours? This won't be trivial, but it shouldn't be too
 difficult. I think we should push this to v2 also.
 d) If we're auditing the logging, do we want to consider switching to
 [https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/12.2.0/core/howto/logging.html
 twisted.python.log]? Isis brought this up a few weeks ago. If we're going
 to make a decision on it, now is a fine
 time.[https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TwistedLogging 0]

 I'm prioritizing some features/enhancements (mainly adding more debug
 output and scrubbing) due to the importance of solving #9174. The faster
 we are able to fix that, the better.

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