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Rename the settings whose names do not say what they control (closes #234)
Applies the setting renames of the naming audit under the SWW_WAF_ and
SWW_RPROXY_ prefixes, with sneak's names for the IP reputation cache
time and the two time limits, which now take milliseconds. The rproxy
log field default_disposition becomes waf_backend_no_answer, and
config.Config and config.FromEnvironment become config.WAF and
config.WAFFromEnvironment. Go fields, test names and prose follow. No
aliases; nothing reads the old names.

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# The metrics
What `GET /_sww/metrics` answers with, at `waf`'s own address. "Metrics
endpoint" in [`SPEC.md`](../SPEC.md) describes the endpoint. Prometheus keeps
the `instance` label as `exported_instance` unless the scrape sets
`honor_labels: true`. `rproxy` has no metrics.
Every `sww_*request_bytes_total` and `sww_*response_bytes_total` series counts
body bytes, never headers, whatever `SWW_WAF_BYTES_COUNTED` says.
## Traffic
- `sww_requests_total`, `sww_request_bytes_total` and
`sww_response_bytes_total`, by `status_class` such as `2xx` and by `action`;
- `sww_request_duration_seconds` and `sww_upstream_duration_seconds`, as
histograms;
- `sww_requests_in_flight`: the questions and requests to its own endpoints that
`waf` is handling.
## Limits and bans
- `sww_rate_limit_hits_total`, by `window` and by `kind` (`requests`, `bytes` or
`refusals`);
- `sww_offences_total`, by `kind`;
- `sww_bans_made_total`, by `cause`;
- `sww_active_bans` and `sww_permanent_bans`.
## Attack detection
- `sww_rule_matches_total`, by `rule_id` and `action`, and `sww_rules_loaded`;
- `sww_core_rule_set_matches_total`, by `mode` and `rule_id`, for the rules that
fired.
## Countries and AS numbers
For the `SWW_WAF_METRICS_BUSIEST_COUNTRIES_AND_ASNS` busiest of each, the rest
as `other`:
- `sww_country_requests_total`, `sww_country_request_bytes_total`,
`sww_country_response_bytes_total` and `sww_country_list_refusals_total`, by
`country`;
- `sww_asn_requests_total`, `sww_asn_request_bytes_total` and
`sww_asn_response_bytes_total`, by `asn`.
## Lookups
- `sww_geojs_requests_total` and `sww_geojs_failures_total`;
- `sww_requests_without_geojs_answer_total`: the requests that needed an answer
and went on without it;
- with the file source, `sww_lookup_database_last_read_timestamp_seconds` and
`sww_lookup_database_read_failures_total`.
## Reputation sources
By `source`: each list's URL, each zone, and `abuseipdb`:
- `sww_reputation_hits_total`, `sww_reputation_queries_total` and
`sww_reputation_failures_total`;
- `sww_reputation_last_fetch_timestamp_seconds`, for a list;
- `sww_reputation_daily_budget_remaining`, for AbuseIPDB.
## State and cache files
By `file`, the name of a state or cache file:
- `sww_state_file_writes_total`, `sww_state_file_write_failures_total`,
`sww_state_file_last_write_timestamp_seconds` and `sww_state_file_size_bytes`;
- `sww_state_file_edits_taken_in_total` and
`sww_state_file_edits_set_aside_total`;
- `sww_tracked_clients`: the clients in the table.
## Remote log, alerts and the process
- while a syslog server is set, `sww_remote_log_lines_sent_total`,
`sww_remote_log_lines_dropped_total` and `sww_remote_log_lines_waiting`;
- by `destination`, `sww_alerts_sent_total`, `sww_alert_send_failures_total`,
`sww_alerts_suppressed_total` and `sww_alerts_dropped_total`;
- Go's own `go_` metrics and the process's `process_` metrics.
## When a request is counted
`waf` counts a denied request at its decision, and a request to its own
endpoints when it is answered. It counts an allowed request when its report
comes, with the status, bytes and times the report gives. These are not counted:
- a report itself;
- an allowed request whose report never comes;
- a question refused with `400`;
- a question whose body stopped arriving.