[tor-relays] Why does my relay often appears offline in Metrics and should I be worry?

[Clément Février]

On 09/04/2020 20:56, Michael Gerstacker wrote:
> Am Do., 9. Apr. 2020 um 15:39 Uhr schrieb Clément Février
> <clement at forumanalogue.fr <mailto:clement at forumanalogue.fr>>:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     I often check my relay trough Metrics, but it often appears as offline
>     after some time, from couple of hours to few days. I think it has this
>     behavior since December 20. However, my relay seems to run normally. I
>     have the usual number of connections when I check in Nyx. I don't see
>     anything in the log.
>     But, in Nyx, I don't see the flags that I see when it appears as online
>     in Metrics.
>     What I do is to restart the service, but I'm not sure if it's what I'm
>     suppose to do.
> 
> 
> I had the same problem some days ago but only once.
> The relay was shown as offline on Metrics and all flags in nyx were gone.
> I did not saw anything strange in the logfile and a reboot did not
> solved the problem.
> 
> The next morning everything was back to normal.
> 
> I switched it from a non-exit to an exit the day before and was still
> messing around with the Exit policy so i thought it was related to this.
> 
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The issue is back. After more than 3 days, the relay appears offline.
All flags are gone in nyx. There is a bug.
How to be notified when there is a issue with our relay?

Clèm