# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 10
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/malf2rq
Well that was fun! 🤩 I was being attacked directly (_bypasses Cloudflare somehow_) and whatever dafuq that was was killing my ingress and causing it to get OOM killed 😱 I was seeing 100s of requests per second!!! 😱
Well that was fun! 🤩 I was being attacked directly (_bypasses Cloudflare somehow_) and whatever dafuq that was was killing my ingress and causing it to get OOM killed 😱 I was seeing 100s of requests per second!!! 😱
Here's a visual of what happened before I firewalled off all web traffic to force it to go through Cloudflare. Don't even ask me how my IP addresses got found out, but either this is malicious, incompetent or my wider ISP is being DDoS'd (_it's happened before_). 
Here's a visual of what happened before I firewalled off all web traffic to force it to go through Cloudflare. Don't even ask me how my IP addresses got found out, but either this is malicious, incompetent or my wider ISP is being DDoS'd (_it's happened before_).
@prologic Ouch. Any insight on who that was? Or just random IPs?
@prologic Ouch. Any insight on who that was? Or just random IPs?
@prologic Ouch. Any insight on who that was? Or just random IPs?
@prologic Ouch. Any insight on who that was? Or just random IPs?
@movq Too many random IP(s), hundreds of them, many hundreds of QPS. I can only imagine some crawler(s) going crazy out there and not respecting anything at all or even remotely being nice.
@movq Too many random IP(s), hundreds of them, many hundreds of QPS. I can only imagine some crawler(s) going crazy out there and not respecting anything at all or even remotely being nice.