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Rename discriminator to waf everywhere (closes #312)
The command is now `sww waf`, and the package is `internal/waf`. Types,
functions, files, tests, comments, docs, the Dockerfile, the runit
script, `script/`, compose examples, the log field `waf_line` and the
`X-From-Waf` test header follow. No behaviour changes, and no setting
changes name: rproxy already finds the waf through `SWRP_WAF_BACKEND`.

Done with one `sed -i` (Discriminator and DISCRIMINATOR to WAF,
discriminator to waf) over the files `git grep -i discriminator`
listed, as sneak allowed for this rename, then `git mv` for the
package and files. By hand afterwards: the header's spelling, which
the linter requires, and the padding after `waf` in `sww`'s usage
text.

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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_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
`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_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_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 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_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.