Hey Alex, Thanks for the kinds words and recommendations. Since I already have some of the code ready and most of the clients do not have a version with YAML cache mgr output available I would say that this is the best choice. I offer this as a Squid-Cache statistics project and not a personal one.
Any directions on this, @Amos @Kinkie? Thanks, Eliezer ---- Eliezer Croitoru NgTech, Tech Support Mobile: +972-5-28704261 Email: ngtech1...@gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: squid-dev <squid-dev-boun...@lists.squid-cache.org> On Behalf Of Alex Rousskov Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2022 05:03 To: squid-dev@lists.squid-cache.org Subject: Re: [squid-dev] Squid-Cache statistics reporting project 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. _______________________________________________ squid-dev mailing list squid-dev@lists.squid-cache.org http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-dev _______________________________________________ squid-dev mailing list squid-dev@lists.squid-cache.org http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-dev