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📅 Original date posted:2014-05-07
📝 Original message:I'm going to install this now on my full node, looks really cool!
This is my node page: http://199.58.210.124/
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Charlie
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On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
> I think there a few different possible ways to go here.
>
> One is to try and simplify the setup of all the components so it all gets
> installed together. That might be feasible in some quite restricted setups
> but the installation instructions for Graphite look kind of terrifying.
>
> Another is to export stats over regular TCP and make them public so
> literally anyone can listen to the stats feed for any node. Then people who
> dig stats and graphs could work on stats aggregators that give global
> network visibility independently, effectively crawling the p2p network for
> data. It'd have the advantage of having zero setup for the node operators
> and not require much in the way of resources.
>
> For what it's worth, although the environment is a bit different inside
> Google the latter approach is used. Monitoring servers locate servers of
> interest via a discovery service, connect to them and start streaming stats
> data into a database service that can then be queried later to get graphs.
>
> The stats are also run through various rules to obtain alerts about
> problematic conditions. For example, if a subset of the network splits it
> might be hard to notice that if the node operators aren't paying attention
> and Matt's fork alert/emailing code isn't set up. But if there was a site
> crawling nodes and aggregating chain heights by version, that could trigger
> an alert to people who *are* paying attention.
>
> I know from practical experience that monitoring and analysis tends to
> appeal more to certain types of people than others. So I quite like the
> "let anyone monitor" approach. However, it may not be appropriate in a P2P
> network, I did not think about it much.
>
> Obviously I'm assuming none of the stats expose privacy sensitive data.
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Wladimir <laanwj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Jameson Lopp <jameson.lopp at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > I agree that it would be awesome to offer these types of stats with the
>> installer; unfortunately the route I've taken has dependencies on several
>> other other pieces of software to do all the heavy lifting of stats
>> aggregation and chart rendering. I'm assuming that you would not want to
>> build any of that processing into Bitcoin Core itself; would you be opposed
>> to packaging other software along with the installer?
>>
>> Depends on just how much stuff it is. The idea is primarily to have an
>> installer for running a (wallet-less) node as an OS background
>> service.
>>
>> Having some statistics available would be worth some extra download
>> size, otherwise it would be pretty much invisible.
>>
>> We'd already decided that we would need something like Python for the
>> stats service. Implementing things like web services in C++ is just
>> not realistic given the time constraints and the great already-written
>> code that is out there. As an optional tool it should be external, not
>> part of bitcoind itself.
>>
>> I suppose the chart rendering happens client-side? In that case the
>> web service just has to collect and provide the data, and serve static
>> html/js files.
>>
>> Wladimir
>>
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