[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
     Type:  task                                 |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team  |        Version:
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Parent ID:  #30152                               |         Points:
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Comment (by phw):

 We discussed this in [http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-
 meeting.2019-12-12-17.59.html today's anti-censorship meeting]. Here's a
 summary:
 * We will use Nagios for internal services: BridgeDB, Snowflake, and
 GetTor.
 * We will use Prometheus's
 "[https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter#prometheus-configuration
 blackbox exporter]" for default bridges, which are external services.
 * Our admins will handle our Nagios config and the anti-censorship team
 will handle Prometheus.
 * We will experiment with Prometheus's "alertmanager", which can send
 notifications if a monitoring target goes offline.

 For Nagios, here are our monitoring targets:
 * https://bridges.torproject.org (the page should contain the string "What
 are bridges?")
 * https://gettor.torproject.org (the page should contain the string "What
 is GetTor?")
 * https://snowflake.torproject.org (the page should contain the string
 "Snowflake is a system")
 * https://snowflake-broker.torproject.net/debug (the page should contain
 the string "available")
 * ~~gettor-01.torproject.org (the service should respond to emails; hiro
 already worked on this)~~

 Note that the strings that should be present in the respective pages are
 mere suggestions. Ultimately, we just need a test that guarantees that
 these pages are correctly serving content.

 Admins: is there anything else that you need to move forward with this?

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