[tor-bugs] #11041 [Onionoo]: Add new document type with monthly relay and bridge statistics to Onionoo

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#11041: Add new document type with monthly relay and bridge statistics to Onionoo
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 Reporter:  karsten      |          Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:
Component:  Onionoo      |        Version:
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 Last week, I talked to Torservers people about generating reports on total
 traffic relayed by a relay or average number of users of a bridge (related
 to #10331).  I suggested using the data contained in Onionoo's bandwidth
 documents and yet-to-be-implemented clients documents and aggregating them
 by month.

 While this approach is certainly doable, it has the downside that
 Onionoo's graph data becomes less detailed over time.  Which is okay for
 graphs, but not nice if one wants a report for 12 or 24 months ago.  Also,
 it's not exactly trivial to transform data from the current format to
 monthly intervals.

 Here's another approach: Onionoo could serve another document which
 aggregates statistics by month, regardless of how long observations lie in
 the past.  Each data point would start on the first day of a month at
 00:00 UTC and end on the last day of the month at 23:59 UTC, except for
 the first and last data point.

 Possible data for this new document type:
  - Bandwidth: how many bytes did the relay or bridge write and read in a
 month?  The document would say when the relay showed up first (which was
 probably not exactly on the first day of a month at 00:00 UTC), and it
 would say until when in the current month bandwidth data has been
 included.  Would be available for relays and bridges, though it's probably
 more important as a success metric for relays than for bridges.
  - Uptime: what fraction of known network statuses contained the relay or
 bridge with the Running flag?  Would be available for relays and bridges.
  - Clients: how many users did the bridge have on average when it reported
 client statistics?  Also, what countries did users come from (only listing
 countries with at least 1% of users of this bridge), what transports did
 they use (only included if reported), and what IP versions did they use
 (only included if reported)?  Would only be available for bridges, because
 directory mirrors and directory guards make it impossible to get these
 data for single relay.

 (We'll want to create three or more child tickets if we agree that this
 new document type would be useful.)

 Would this new document type be useful for Torservers people?

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