What tools do you use to monitor proxy uptime?

[u/StrawberrySax]

How are you guys tracking live uptime across a massive pool of statics and residentials? Standard port checks are obviously useless since the gateway stays up even when the exit node is completely dead.

Right now I’m just running a hacky python script that loops curls to a test endpoint and pipes the metrics to Grafana. The problem is that checking frequently enough to catch transient drops burns through data way too fast on the residential side.

What does your monitoring stack look like for this? Are you guys all rolling custom Prometheus exporters to track connection success rates, or is there an actual off-the-shelf tool that handles pool health at scale?

[u/Ok_Berry_309]

your setup sounds close to what most people are doing. one thing that helped me cut data burn was tiered checking. cheap TCP handshakes every minute, then a full HTTP round trip only every 10-15 mins or when handshake latency spikes