Update the SNS Root's canister_status API

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Sure!

Pros:

  • Makes additional metric information about SNS canisters available to SNS developers, or those who wish to help monitor SNS canisters (achieves parity with non-SNS canisters). Many SNS canisters have frozen in the past, so I’m building a solution that will help monitor SNS canisters and provide additional visibility for their DAOs.
  • Being able to see the memory_allocation metric could have helped to prevent this issue
  • Freezing threshold & idle cycles burn are important stats in order to determine at what amount of cycles the canister will freeze
  • Cycle balance is already public via the current API, so there is no additional attack vector that isn’t already (potentially) exposed by the current API.
  • Having more canister data metrics is generally good?

Cons:

  • Development time is required (albeit very little dev time)
  • You probably want to keep this up to date as the canister_status API evolves (i.e. adding query metrics)
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