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diff --git a/archive/2022-05-10-availability-monitoring-requirements.md b/archive/2022-05-10-availability-monitoring-requirements.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7522503 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/2022-05-10-availability-monitoring-requirements.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +# Requirements for availability monitoring + + - System requirements + - Runs on a modern linux distro + - System can send email + - System can run sigsum-debug binary + - Root access is not required + - Leveled alerts, aka severity + - Error + - Warning + - Alerts via email + - Check endpoint reachability + - API §3.1 - §3.7 + - Enumerate the different ways to use an endpoint + - http, https + - ipv4, ipv6 + - onion +- Verify response data (the output of Sigsum endpoints) + - E.g., timestamp or number of witness signatures on get-tree-head-to-cosign +- Perform checks from multiple vantage points + +# Concrete milestones + +220515 + + - Sigsum endpoints + - Either IPv4 or IPv6 (whatever the system's curl uses) + - Only HTTPS + - When do they 2XX? + - No alert state + - One alert per failure + - Configurable test frequency (~1h hour) + - Notifications by email only to one single address + - "Be done very quickly but also very imperfectly" + +220530 +220831 +221031 |