Another interesting adventure from the life of a #MastoAdmin: "Where do all these requests come from?"
These spikes come and go on a fairly steady rhythm (each ~60 minutes). I found this to be interesting, so I investigated which URLs are being requested the most during these spikes.
Turns out: It's the emojis. I don't mind as they're being returned early by Varnish, but why so much? 2.5 million times per 24 hours seems like _a lot_.
Two red lines mark the Mastodon 4.5 upgrade.
Aggregated logs from NGINX, parsing the URL, and showing the top ten most requested URLs.
A graph showing the requests from NGINX, with a time scale of 7 days.
A graph showing the requests from NGINX, with a time scale of 24 hours.