Is there any Nagios monitoring in place or is there the need to have
some external reliability monitoring in place?
There is no external monitoring in place that I know of. I know ZC had
some monitoring that was supposed to send me an email, but that was
setup a few years ago, and recently didn't report the downtime.
My own mirroring reported the downtime (indirectly, by reporting that it
couldn't mirror anymore); this is how I noticed one of the recent outages.
I can set up a Nagios machine to check the HTTP status of PyPi.
If it's easy to setup: why not? What exactly would that check?
As you said, we may have the same problem in the future on all
mirroring nodes ...
Yes, there should be some more investigative work be done on the reason
of the apparent unreliability.
The pep381mirror software produces a set of static files on the mirror,
so you don't need to run PyPI itself. I merely use Apache to serve the
PyPI mirrors.
Regards,
Martin
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