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Prometheus & Grafana

Prometheus & Grafana

Besides monitoring node performance, it's quite useful to setup monitoring system for servers on which operators run their nodes.

The combination of Prometheus and Grafana is a common stack used by Nym team for internal monitoring as well as by core community operators like ExploreNym (opens in a new tab).

Prometheus

Prometheus (opens in a new tab) is a free and open source monitoring systems. It allows operators to have their metrics, events, and alerts under full control. This ecosystem offers multiple advantages:

Prometheus collects and stores its metrics as time series data, i.e. metrics information is stored with the timestamp at which it was recorded, alongside optional key-value pairs called labels.

Grafana

Grafana (opens in a new tab) is an open-source analytics and interactive front end. It is widely used for its easy to manage dashboards with visualizations like graphs, charts and alerts, all connected to live data sources.

Setup Guides

There are various ways how to setup this stack. You can chose based on your preferences to do your own flow or follow some of the documented ones:

  • ExploreNYM scripts for self-hosted monitoring
  • Setup monitoring in a Docker container (Under review - will be out soon)

References and further reading

Node API CheckExploreNYM Scripts