[HELP] What's the best way to reach a given instance's admins (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by bahmanm@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I'm working on lemmy-meter which is a simple observability solution for Lemmy end-users like me, to be able to check the health of a few endpoints of their favourite instance in a visually pleasing way.

👉 You can check out a screenshot of the pre-release landing page.

💡 Currently, lemmy-meter sends 33 HTTP GET requests per minute to a given instance.

For a few reasons, I don't wish lemmy-meter to cause any unwanted extra load on Lemmy instances.
As such I'd like it be an opt-in solution, ie a given instance's admin(s) should decide whether they want their instance to be included in lemmy-meter's reports.

❓ Now, assuming I've got a list of instances to begin w/, what's the best way to reach out to the admins wrt lemmy-meter?

PS: The idea occurred to me after a discussion RE momentary outages.

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[-] bahmanm@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

beyond acceptable use

Since literally every aspect of lemmy-meter is configurable per instance, I'm not worried about that 😎 The admins can tell me what's the frequency/number they're comfortable w/ and I can reconfigure the solution.

You can hit the endpoint /api/v3/site for information about an instance including the admins list.

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks very much 🙏

[-] johntash@eviltoast.org 2 points 1 year ago

Are these 33 different requests or do you hit the same endpoint multiple times?

I'd probably default to every 5 minutes at most, but I guess if it's up to the admin then it's all good. 33 requests per minute shouldn't be a ton of load if it's all read requests.

[-] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Speaking as an admin of an instance here, 33 requests a minute is not "all good".

[-] johntash@eviltoast.org 3 points 1 year ago

Not without asking, but if the admin is okay with it then sure. I don't see the point of any sort of monitoring making that many requests per minute though.

[-] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Indeed. IIUC, OP said 33 reqs/min is a ceiling and tunable on a per-target basis.

If the target is a Cloudflare instance, you could perhaps even do 300 reqs/min without even being noticed.

[-] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not worried about that 😎

You should be. Your name will be associated with abuse forevermore.

The admins can tell me what's the frequency/number they're comfortable w/ and I can reconfigure the solution.

Or you can set some sane defaults and a timeout period. 1 request / 5 mins is fine to check if something is online and responding.

[-] bahmanm@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

sane defaults and a timeout period

I agree. This makes more sense.

Your name will be associated with abuse forevermore.

I was going to ignore your reply as a 🧌 given it's an opt-in service for HTTP monitoring. But then you had a good point on the next line!

Let's use such important labels where they actually make sense 🙂

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