After nearly a decade of mishap and delay, we have updated the WMCS
terms of use. The updated document for toolforge and cloud-vps admins
can be found here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_Terms_of_use
and the terms of use for visitors to WMCS sites can be found here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_End_User_Terms_…
There is one significant change in these terms: Cloud-vps projects which
collect personal data will need to include an explicit privacy policy
for their projects. This is section 7.3. For other WMCS users and admins
these documents do not represent any significant change in policy, but
do clarify and finalize many things that were poorly-worded in the
previous TOU, or policies that we have enforced informally without
officially stating.
Please feel free to reach out to WMCS staff if you find any part of
these documents concerning or disruptive to your work on our platforms.
-Andrew
Hi,
We are planning to do some changes to the Cloud VPS monitoring systems.
Most notably:
* The Graphite and statsd servers will be shut down. Please migrate your
clients to use Prometheus metrics instead.
* The Grafana instance at https://grafana-cloud.wikimedia.org (or
grafana-labs.wikimedia.org) will be shut down and replaced by a new
instance at https://grafana.wmcloud.org. Please migrate dashboards you
rely on to the new server.
Toolforge users are unaffected by these changes. Also, the popular
"Cloud VPS project board" Grafana dashboard has already been migrated to
use Prometheus.
For more details and the timeline for these changes, see:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/2023_Cloud_VPS_metrics_changes
Taavi