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.

  • PenguinCoder@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    33 HTTP GET requests per minute to a given instance.

    That is way beyond acceptable use, and would likely have your service blocked. There exists these services too :

    https://lemmy-status.org/

    https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

    Maybe those do what you’re trying to do?

    There is not an “admin inbox” for lemmy instances. You can hit the endpoint /api/v3/site for information about an instance including the admins list.

    • bahmanm@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      beyond acceptable use

      Since literally every aspect of lemmy-meter is configurable per instance, I’m not worried about that 😎 The admins can tell me what’s the frequency/number they’re comfortable w/ and I can reconfigure the solution.

      You can hit the endpoint /api/v3/site for information about an instance including the admins list.

      Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks very much 🙏