2023-07-20

[explodecomputer]

Heavy traffic causing issues

1. Look at logs - are they all coming from a single IP address

• Where to look? reverse proxy server? webapps-scmv-p0.epi.bris.ac.uk

2. We need to make a list of all the server / traffic monitoring tools

• GA
• Kibana
• server logs

3. Turn on mandatory authentication
   option 1 - use existing google oauth2 mandatory for all queries
   • might not be available for everybody?
   • does it work with services (e.g. website queries the API)

option 2 - opengwas login
- requires some software engineering to implement
- create a login / registration system on website
- figure out how to issue and validate tokens
- helps gather user information

option 3 - create replicates of the API container
- requires reconfiguring the deployment

option 4 - throttling
- using nginx?
- sys admin work
- using API
- potentially requires job queue implementation
- software engineering
- using oracle?
- https://traefik.io

4. IT services - can they deal with this?
   • use some of the grant funding for this?