🚨Monitoring

Ensuring the uninterrupted performance and stability of our blockchain validators is a critical priority. To achieve this, we have implemented a robust and multi-layered monitoring infrastructure that delivers detailed insights into both system-level and application-level metrics. This allows us to maintain validator health, optimize performance, and quickly address any issues.

Our monitoring stack integrates the following key components:

1. Prometheus and Node Exporter Prometheus serves as the backbone of our monitoring system, collecting metrics from all key components of the validator infrastructure. With Node Exporter, we monitor detailed system-level metrics such as CPU utilization, memory consumption, disk I/O, and network throughput. This data provides a clear picture of server resource usage, helping us identify and address performance bottlenecks before they impact operations.

2. Grafana Dashboards Grafana is used to visualize the data collected by Prometheus, presenting it in intuitive and customizable dashboards. These dashboards provide real-time insights into validator performance, including block production rates, peer connectivity, and transaction processing. Alerts configured within Grafana ensure we are immediately informed of anomalies such as excessive resource usage, high latency, or missed blocks.

3. Tenderduty Tenderduty plays a crucial role in monitoring the operational health of our validators. It tracks critical events, including missed blocks, downtime, and potential slashing risks. By generating alerts in real time, Tenderduty enables us to respond promptly to issues, minimizing downtime and mitigating risks to our stake.

4. Custom Monitoring Scripts To complement off-the-shelf solutions, we have developed custom scripts tailored to our validators' specific needs. These scripts perform additional checks, such as monitoring consensus participation, verifying data integrity, and ensuring the timely application of updates. They also include automated routines to collect logs and perform diagnostics, streamlining the troubleshooting process.

5. Comprehensive Logging and Alerting Logs from all components—validators, monitoring tools, and custom scripts—are aggregated and analyzed for patterns that might indicate potential problems. Alerts are configured to notify the team via multiple channels, ensuring prompt response regardless of the time or location.

6. High Availability and Failover Monitoring For validators deployed in high-availability configurations, our monitoring system tracks both primary and backup nodes. This ensures seamless failover during maintenance or unexpected outages. Metrics from both nodes are continuously reviewed to confirm readiness and validate the effectiveness of our failover mechanisms.

By combining real-time monitoring, advanced alerting, and custom analytics, we maintain a proactive approach to validator health and stability. This ensures that our validators remain reliable, secure, and fully compliant with network requirements.