id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc launchpad_bug 3549 Remove the stats gatherer and supporting code exarkun GitHub "Since at least 1.13.0 it has not been possible to run the stats gatherer. One person did notice this (https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2940) but it sounds like a new user, not someone actually using the stats gatherer or related functionality in the real world. Since there have been no other reports of its breakage, a reasonable conclusion seems to be that no one actually uses this functionality. Operational visibility into the Tahoe-LAFS software is a very important thing for any real deployments and gathering metrics from the software itself is likely an essential part of obtaining this visibility. However, a custom stats aggregator custom-built for Tahoe-LAFS is probably not a requirement for this. Instead, there are a number of widely deployed third-party systems for collecting such metrics. Many of them also hook into more powerful visualization systems than Munin (which is what all of the Tahoe-LAFS stats stuff is geared towards). I propose that we re-build Tahoe-LAFS' operational visibility features with one of these more powerful systems. As a first step in that direction, we should remove all of the existing ""stats gatherer"" and related support code. This will clear the way for new work. If this were a regression then it would be a bad plan but the regression already happened years ago. " defect closed normal undecided unknown n/a fixed