Anyone else seeing a huge uptick in network traffic?

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A ton of relays are seeing a massive (~2-4 times) increase in traffic.

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https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/9EEE861CD8A5FE26A1F276879323172F5B91082C

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https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/5357581AC3CC7E7AC646DC571C1DB17A042FD71C

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https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/E81993EA52B73285CFFD02FEC003569D21483001

Yet by the looks of it, network traffic is not increasing.

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https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html?start=2022-02-04&end=2022-03-04

Is this a metrics bug? Or is there really a massive traffic spike?

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chris via Tor Project Forum:

A ton of relays are seeing a massive (~2-4 times) increase in traffic.

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Yet by the looks of it, network traffic is not increasing.

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Traffic – Tor Metrics

Is this a metrics bug? Or is there really a massive traffic spike?

Metrics bug:

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Must be a bug in metrics - have the same effect on metrics but can’t see it on the network interface of the node(s)…

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See also [tor-relays] Odd network activity - #7 by hiro

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Yes I can confirm. This was a metrics bug that was briefly introduced between yesterday afternoon (March 3 2022) and today early morning (around 5 AM UTC).
Network traffic is not affected as this only concerned bandwidth status from onionoo.

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I can now confirm the data has been restored and no relay or bridge should exhibit any bump in traffic due to this but.