Tor Metrics shows bogus data

Support Relay Operator
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Hi,

I (and others in the IRC channel) have observed that the relay status page https://metrics.torproject.org/ is displaying incorrect data for some relays.

For instance, regarding my relay:

This relay appears to be less than 2 weeks old.

First Seen 2024-01-10 16:00:00 (3 days 12 hours 10 minutes and 35 seconds)

Uptime 10 days 11 hours 8 minutes and 25 seconds

This obviously does not make much sense.

The relay is actually 13 years old.

The error disappears after a while but reoccurs.

Is this issue already known in any way?

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Hi, we have been having an issue with collector (Collector not updating bridges (#40038) · Issues · The Tor Project / Network Health / Metrics / Collector · GitLab) which is likely the cause. I think the issue should be fixed, but I am noticing some weird behavior on onionoo still due to delays in receiving data or having restarted the services many times.

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Same problem here.

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I’ve had issues as well recently; Relay family association broken on relay search - #3 by GeKo

5

Yes, this is known. There were some messages about this in the relay mailing list.

Most of the stats seem to be correct now again.

6

Hello anong,
the same here (for serveral months), the tunnels for example…
Persistent red bubble + stats top != graphs history bottom.

7

Seems nothing changed at all:

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Sometimes it is displayed correctly for me, sometimes not…

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That timestamp has changed. Now it says 2024-01-29 19:00:00 which is still incorrect.

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Same message with my relay.

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I think this should be fixed now. There might be some corner cases still, feel free to report them to me, gitlab (The Tor Project / Network Health / Metrics / Onionoo · GitLab) or in this thread.

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It’s not fixed. My relay shows:

First Seen
2019-02-18 00:00:00 (5 years 13 days 14 hours 50 minutes and 44 seconds)

Which is incorrect. The relay is more than 12 years old.

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@anong we fixed the data on onionoo from the bandwidth history. We do not have history older than 5 years so we used the oldest datapoint we had.

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That is really sad…

How can the older datapoints be explained? Relay Search

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Hi, it looks like my relay still displays an incorrect date. Do you mind taking a look please?

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Ola, my tunnels are red all time, months, for example this Relay Search

I want the green bubble there : )

Edit:
And yes the > First Seen 2024-01-22 12:00:00 is really nonsence. I started the tunnels as soon as the project was released.

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Any idea when First Seen bug will be fixed?

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