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Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• onionprobe

Projektgeschichte

Onionprobe grew out of the operational need to monitor onion services as services, not just publish them. Its manual frames the tool as a way to test endpoints and paths, while the project site presents it as part of the Onion Services Ecosystem maintained around Tor onion-service operations.

The changelog shows active release engineering around the monitoring stack. Version 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 landed in April 2023, and Tor Project Forum announced version 1.2.0 on April 24, 2024 with a required database migration for monitoring-node users.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Onionprobe is distributed through PyPI and documented in Debian and Ubuntu manpages, with Homebrew packaging it for macOS and Linux users. The Tor Project also maintains an Ansible role that can install Onionprobe from Git, PyPI, or distribution packages and configure either a single service or a standalone monitoring node.

Wie es verwendet wird

Operators use onionprobe to check whether onion-service URLs are reachable, whether specific paths respond, and whether the results should feed a metrics pipeline. In standalone mode, the project provides a containerized monitoring node with Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, a persistent dataset, and an Onionprobe exporter.

The tool is especially practical for onion-service fleets because reachability can fail at several layers: Tor client connectivity, onion-service descriptor publication, path construction, web-service health, or application routing. Onionprobe packages those checks into a repeatable CLI and monitoring target.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, Onionprobe is a clean example of a niche network daemon graduating into familiar observability shapes: PyPI package, distro package, Homebrew formula, man page, Prometheus exporter, Grafana dashboard, and Ansible role.

Zeitleiste

• 2023-04-03: Onionprobe v1.1.0 was released.
• 2023-04-04: Onionprobe v1.1.1 followed with Grafana, Docker, image-versioning, and database-upgrade fixes.
• 2024-04-24: Onionprobe v1.2.0 was announced by the Tor Project with monitoring-node database migration notes.
• 2026: Debian, Ubuntu, PyPI, and Homebrew provide install surfaces for the Onionprobe CLI.

Related projects

• Related projects and technologies include Tor onion services, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, the Onionprobe Ansible role, and Tor Project onion-service operational tooling.

Quellen

• https://forum.torproject.org/t/onionprobe-release-1-2-0/12442
• https://github.com/torproject/onionprobe-role/blob/main/README.md
• https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/web/onionprobe/
• https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/web/onionprobe/changelog/
• https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/web/onionprobe/man/
• https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/web/onionprobe/standalone/
• https://pypi.org/project/onionprobe/