[Galene] Re: Additional stats

["Sebastien Binet" <binet@cern.ch>]

hi there,

On Tue Oct 20, 2026 at 16:15 CET, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
>> I would be interested in making that endpoint an optional feature in Galéne, and I would additionally be interested in collecting ICE information.
>> 
>> Is there interest in such features, and would it be OK for me to use GenAI (Claude) for the implementation?
>
> Extra statistics would be useful. However two caveats:
>
> 1. Respect user privacy. For example, the current endpoint does not
> expose IP addresses or user names. This is important: people are using
> galene.org for intimate couple chat (I know because the group names are
> exposed), and there is at least one priest using Galene for online
> confession (he's using his own instance, thankfully).
>
> 2. Don't harm performance, at least when the admin is not monitoring.
> Galene is very carefully constructed to scale across many cores. For
> example, we avoid locking whenever possible, and we try to avoid atomic
> variables that are shared between more than a few threads.
>
> Note in particular that the Go Prometheus library uses global atomics,
> which is a bad idea, since it causes cacheline bouncing. (The right
> solution would be to have per-thread or per-CPU counters, together with
> periodic reconciliation.)
>
> I guess what I'm saying is that I'd love you to experiment, but please
> don't be discouraged if I don't accept your first attempt.

if genAI assisted code were to be included into Galène, could you first tag the last release of Galène that happens to be untainted (and advertise it) ?

that would help people who do not want such things to taint their work/homestation.

thanks in advance.

cheers,
-s