"She drove my computer, pulling the information she had into various spreadsheets. She translated my muttered, vague ideas into charts.
“This is called data mining.” She said the last words in English.
“Which of us is the canary?” I said."
-- the city and the city, China Mieville
As hammock2 mentions, it's hard to believe this requires much effort to keep running -- if the lack of standardization is the issue, couldn't they rather transition to supporting rsync-style (as mentioned by
rsync) canaries only? (Yes, that would reset a lot of canaries)
Third party monitoring does seem to add value to to canaries. One could perhaps argue that it's a job for archive.org -- but seeing as this is all set up, it seems like a shame to shuttle it.
"She drove my computer, pulling the information she had into various spreadsheets. She translated my muttered, vague ideas into charts.
“This is called data mining.” She said the last words in English.
“Which of us is the canary?” I said."
-- the city and the city, China Mieville
As hammock2 mentions, it's hard to believe this requires much effort to keep running -- if the lack of standardization is the issue, couldn't they rather transition to supporting rsync-style (as mentioned by rsync) canaries only? (Yes, that would reset a lot of canaries)
Third party monitoring does seem to add value to to canaries. One could perhaps argue that it's a job for archive.org -- but seeing as this is all set up, it seems like a shame to shuttle it.