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Say which bytes the byte limits count, and what passing one does (closes #203)
sneak asked for every document to be audited for sentences that do not say what they mean. The byte limits now say which bytes count (response bodies, request bodies or both, as `SWW_BYTES_COUNT` says, WebSocket traffic included) and what passing one does. Other unclear or false sentences in `README.md`, `SPEC.md`, `EVALUATION.md` and `docs/` are rewritten.

Documents only. `REPO_POLICIES.md` is shared policy text and stayed out.

Model: fable-5-1 (first audit); opus-5-5 (rework)
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# The metrics
What `GET /_sww/metrics` answers with, at `discriminator`'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_BYTES_COUNT` 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
`discriminator` 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_waf_matches_total`, by `mode` and `rule_id`, for the rules that fired.
## Countries and AS numbers
For the `SWW_METRICS_TOP_N` 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_geojs_unanswered_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 files
By `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_buffer_depth`;
- by `destination`, `sww_alerts_sent_total`, `sww_alerts_failed_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
`discriminator` 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.