lookout

🔭 Lookout

On the lookout for lookup quality

This repo implements a service that continuously performs a set of lookup checks using a sample set on one or more IPNI endpoints. It is built to be highly extensible, offering the ability to programmatically define checks as well as samplers. The service then exposes the coverage and latency metrics as Prometheus metrics tagged with checker and sampler names.

Install

To install the event recorder run:

go install github.com/ipni/lookout/cmd/lookout@latest

Usage

$ lookout --help
Usage of lookout:
  -config string
        The path to lookout YAML config file. (default "config.yaml")
  -logLevel string
        The logging level. Only applied if GOLOG_LOG_LEVEL environment variable is unset. (default "info")

Config

The lookout config must be specified as --config flag, with value pointing to a valid configuration YAML file. An example config can be found at examples/config.yaml

• checkers - Set of checkers to use.
  • <checker-name> - The name to associate to the checker, which will appear in metric tags with key checker.
    • type - The type of checker to use. Only ipni-non-streaming is currently supported.
    • ipniEndpoint - The HTTP URL of IPNI compatible lookup API to check.
    • Timeout - The timeout for each multihash lookup.
    • ipfsDhtCascade - Whether to request cascading over IPFS DHT
    • parallelism - The number of concurrent lookups to check against the endpoint.
• samplers - Set of samplers to use for generating multihash lookup samples
  • <sampler-name> - The name to associate to the sampler, which will appear in metric tags with key sampler.
    • type - The type of sampler to use. Only saturn-orch-top-cids and awesome-ipfs-datasets are supported.
• checkInterval - The interval at which to run checks.
• checkersParallelism - The maximum number of concurrent checkers to run in each cycle.
• samplersParallelism - The maximum number of concurrent samplers to run in each cycle.
• metricsListenAddr - The listen address of the metrics HTTP server.

The check cycle is then repeated at the configured interval for all permutations of the configured checkers and samplers.

An example config can be found at examples/config.yaml

License

SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR MIT