Adopted probes should generate credits

[MartinKolarik]

Adopted probes should generate credits

[jimaek]

Only ready, the probe should be active and process measurements to get credits

[jimaek]

Once per day makes sense, with some logic where it has to stay up at least 20 hours during that day to be counted.

[alexey-yarmosh]

I am thinking about having a cron to call /probes every 10 mins with a 5 min deviation. If probe was found in the response increment new onlineTimes field by 1. If at the end of a day onlineTimes > 20 * 6, assign credits. Then set onlineTimes to 0. Time intervals are configurable.

[MartinKolarik]

Seems reasonable.

[jimaek]

Btw we will need to add anti abuse logic at some point, but I'm guessing it won't impact the current implemention and we can come back to it later?

[alexey-yarmosh]

What abuse scenario do you mean?

[jimaek]

Credits farming, e.g. starting 500 probes with some super cheap hosting provider.

I would add rules like limiting the number of probes from the same ASN and same ASN+same city.

Maybe also a global probe limit per account

[alexey-yarmosh]

Ok, current logic is extensible enough to support that in future.

[alexey-yarmosh]

@jimaek should we assign credits for probes in any status or only in "ready"?