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