BigBrother is a monitoring tool used by a few tools hosted on the toolforge grid engine, for more details:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Grid#Bigbrother
We would like to deprecate it because:
- Very few users are actually using it
- Similar functionality exists in Kubernetes (Deployments will keep the minimum number of replicas running)
- It's a maintenance burden we would prefer not to have / simplify cluster configuration