In Release 2.0.7882 the videobridge colibri API would provide information about conferences:
if enabled on the videobridge, one could do for example:
curl http://localhost:8080/colibri/conferences
in Release 2.0.8044 this yields 404.
/colibri/stats still works as expected.
Has this been removed or does this need aditional configuration in latest release?
As long as stats works and the jicofo endpoint its optional anyways i guess, just wondering
though i just realised that also stats is missing on the videobridge:
http://localhost:8080/colibri/stats/
→ also yields 404
| URI: | /colibri/stats/ |
|---|---|
| STATUS: | 404 |
| MESSAGE: | Not Found |
| SERVLET: | org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer-529cfee5 |
Hello,
I enabled the APIs in the jvb.conf → now it works again. This must been ignored/hardcoded ($OPTS?) in the past?
setting enabled to true worked
# The APIs by which the JVB can be controlled
apis {
xmpp-client {
configs {
# Connect to the first XMPP server
xmpp-server-1 {
hostname="meet.example.com"
domain = "auth.example.com"
username = "jvb"
password = "****"
muc_jids = "JvbBrewery@internal.auth.example.com"
# The muc_nickname must be unique across all jitsi-videobridge instances
muc_nickname = "unique-instance-id2"
disable_certificate_verification = false
}
}
}
rest {
enabled = true
}
jvb-api {
enabled = true
}
}
→ in the past these were enabled for me by some other means it seems (were set to false but api worked)
Sorry for the fuzz, maybe this helps someone else → i became aware about it because of messages in the (inofficial) jitsi irc channel on libera.chat
Well, those were enabled using /etc/jitsi/videobridge/config and we migrated those to use the jvb.conf, but as it was explicitly disabled there it stopped working for you. I’m not sure, but we did not have a default config with that disabled …
ah, yes thanks, I see that this was initially set via JVB_OPTS. That explains that.
Yes, /colibri/conferences was part of the Colibri V1 REST API, which was removed with the rest of Colibri v1.
The Colibri v2 REST API is at /colibri/v2/conferences, but it doesn’t currently support GET on that URL, because we weren’t sure what the semantic/use case for it would be.
@snek, can you explain what you were using /colibri/conferences for? And if it’s working for you, are you sure you’re using the latest JVB? It has indeed been removed.
@snek one question, though - Was that an update from 2.0.7882 to 2.0.8044. Or this was a new install and you are manually editing the configs with some automation or something?
There is a code that should migrate the configs from /etc/jitsi/videobridge/config to /etc/jitsi/videobridge/jvb.conf …
Hello
that was an update from 2.0.7882 to 2.0.8044 but not with the debian/default installer and i must have missed that step in the postinst scripts or like. So my described issue was completely self made.
I will ask the person in irc if they have a custom install too or the installer missed something and report back.
Hello,
The Debian Installer worked as expected for the person in IRC, the /stats api worked, settings were migrated properly in the update progress. Only the /colibri/conferences is missing (same for me)
Hi guys,
We also noticed that /colibri/conferences is no longer working.
In our use case we use it to monitor the meetings (bandwidth, number of users, etc). If it’s no longer available in jvb2 than what should we use instead to get detailed info from the conferences?
Thanks
I do use /colibri/stats to monitor bandwith, total users/conferences etc. not sure if it can replace conferences but it has some data
Good point, thank you @snek.
@pdarcos can you see will that work for you, and report back what you see as missing there?
Ok thanks. Will try that and report back if there’s any key metric missing
Indeed the /colibri/stats endpoint does provide some data but not really what I was hoping for.
Perhaps the best option would be use the new prometheus integration and hopefully that’ll provide me all the data I need. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to get it working yet and I can’t find any documentation on how to enable it.
Any help?
Hi again,
Looking through the found fields in colibri stats the only one that seems to have some relevant info is the “throughput_mbps” one.
For my use case I’m trying to gather stats on totalPackets and specially totalMegaBytes that are used in each meeting that goes through the JVB, as well as IP info and the meetingID.
Since colibri/stats doesn’t have that info where else can I look to gather this data?
Thanks
Edit: Hi @damencho
Can you point me in the right direction? I want to recompile and reintroduce the conferences API in latest JVB since I can’t find any other way to get the stats I need.
Thanks
/colibri/conferences was removed, but we could build something similar in /colibri/v2/conferences. @pdarcos Can you share more details on what data you need?
We also have /debug that we scrape for per-conference/endpoint stats in GitHub - jitsi/jvb-rtcstats-push. But we can’t commit keeping that API consistent.
Hi Boris,
Sure. For our project we need to collect metrics on the different conferences going on in different jvbs we have spread out. I took a look at /debug but I’m looking for something more permanent.
The most basic info we need is:
I think the old colibri/conferences API had that info IIRC.
Thanks