We have been using those pages to monitor Hostdb and connection count table in LI. We found it handy and useful. Not sure what’s the alternative way to do similar things.
There will be no performance impact unless you issue a request. When you want to debug, the box is already in some bad state anyway. It’s definitely not something you would request every seconds in prod though. We do have the special ACL to make it only serve from localhost. On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 2:34 PM Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > we have this feature where ATS can server some “static” pages for stats > and introspection. I’d like to propose that we remove this feature for > v9.0.0, opening up the door for better implementations via the traffic_ctl > reworks. > > I understand that this would leave us without some of this feature for the > short term. However, I think that’s ok for a number of reasons: > > 1. It’s mostly a debugging tool (IMO), turning it on in production is > risky at best. Several features (such as searching the cache), can kill the > server performance. > > 2. There are some tools that can do some of what this does, e.g. the > traffic_cache_tool, and various metrics and logging, as well as diagnostics. > > 3. It’s not particularly secure (there’s no ACLs, other than making > obscure URL names). And it’s not particularly easy to setup either :). > > > I’m ok not doing this if there’s at least someone who depends on and need > this feature. I’d expect at a minimum it would still go away in ATS v10.0.0. > > And discuss! > > — Leif > > >
