 This is an experiment. Please boost. Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans. I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :) 66 comments
 @djh the only thing I will have for a while is some IPs. `logrotate` will get rid of them in some 15 days. I'll just play with prometheus and grafana tonight :) @mdione it told I'm either a crawler or human - but I'm a dragonfox :< (share statistics? :3)   @mirabilos yeah, corrected to 'fediverse'. I have seen things I didn't even heard about. @mdione  @mikemccaffrey yeah, didn't think that through. I should have prepared better, but again, I didn't expect ... this :)  @futurebird just my home server, nothing nefarious :) But more seriously, I wanted a better description of the 'thundering herd'¹ that popular accounts sometimes complain about. Also, see how well the tools I have handle this for monitoring. I already know that Prometheus is not made for this. ¹ yes, I know I'm not using the term properly :)   @mdione@en.osm.town Misskey instances will have user agent containing "summaly bot" (i don't remember the exact string sorry)   @jonn hmmm, I don't think I'll do that level of production. My writeups are pretty spartan, and lately I've even used automatic transcription of audios I dictate to my phone, which sounds more advanced, but it just saves me typing (but not editing) time.  @mdione If you wind up with a good list of user agents, please share. I'll send a DM to explain why.  @BlippyTheWonderSlug it should be your browser's default text, the page has 3 attrbibute-less tags, `html`, `body` and `p`. No CSS, no JS, nothing. Granted, it's not 100% up to spec, but should be handled just fine by browsers. @mdione TBF, if I tip the Handy to landscape mode, the point size does go up.  @mdione healthily curious human it is. Although, I did ignore a warning about an unsafe connection. :) @JorisMeys right. This will make musing about real life traffic impact more difficult (having to add CPU usage and response time). I was lazy and didn't set up Let's Encrypt on the new domain, but honestly I didn't expect this to be this 'popular' (1.4k and counting). @mdione will you be creating a graph for distribution over time or a tree of distribution? @mborus many people has asked for this, so I'll just do an edit of the original toot and every body will get the update :)     |
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I prefer not to open the link, just to not pollute the logs :-)