On 4/20/22 18:34, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
In the past I wrote about a project that will include Squid statistics
reporting.
The main goal is to gather from the project users using a script a set
of cache-mgr pages in specific intervals.
The simplest way to do so is to run a script that will use either a
token and will upload the files to an api/webdav/sftp or via email and a
whitelist of emails.
I would like to RFC this specific idea.
Just to avoid misunderstanding: If "this idea" refers to offering your
script to Squid users that want to participate in your project, then you
do not need a squid-dev blessing for doing that because that idea does
not require any Squid modifications.
If you are proposing Squid modifications, then please detail those
modifications. I hope it does not come to Squid duplicating crontab and
sendmail functionality :-).
I can offer to write a cache-mgr to yaml/json converter script that will
create a singe json/yaml file that will contain all the details of the
instance.
As a personal project, that converter sounds good to me! FWIW, I have
heard of 3rd party tools[1] that parse Squid cache manager output, but I
do not know how suitable they are for what you want to achieve. The best
output format would depend on how you plan to post-process data, but
once you get something that follows strict grammar, it should be fairly
easy to convert to other formats as needed. I would just keep the
converter script output as simple and strict as possible to facilitate
further conversions and input in various post-processing tools.
[1] https://github.com/boynux/squid-exporter
As an official Squid project, I think it would be much better to finish
converting cache manager code to produce YAML output natively than to
develop and maintain an official converter script (while still working
on that native YAML conversion).
This option will significantly help the project to grasp a little bit
about the usage of squid around the world and to get a glimpse into the
unknown.
Personally, I am worried that glimpses based on a few
volunteer-submitted samples are more likely to mislead than to correctly
guide Squid development, but that speculation cannot be proven.
Cheers,
Alex.
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