[tor-bugs] #32679 [Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team]: Create VM to run monitoring software for anti-censorship team

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#32679: Create VM to run monitoring software for anti-censorship team
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 Reporter:  phw                                  |          Owner:  tpa
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Component:  Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team  |        Version:
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Comment (by anarcat):

 my first, gut reaction to this is that we shouldn't use another tool than
 what we already have to do monitoring. more specifically, I think we
 should embrace the Prometheus infrastructure I have setup in march, and
 instead of setting up Monit, we should setup a Prometheus
 [https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter black box exporter]
 service.

 I will also note that the anti-censorship team has asked about this in the
 past (#30929, #29863). To be more precise, you *already* have a VM for
 monitoring, it has the lovely name of `hetzner-nbg1-02` and is currently
 setup with a bare Prometheus setup, but does nothing. :)

 I would be *very* happy to get more people involved in managing that
 thing. How about we use that infrastructure instead? :)

 Or, in other words, what's missing from the Prometheus setup so that you
 can do your work? Tell me, I want to help! But I'm hesitant in deploying a
 different service that what we're trying to converge upon.

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