Monitoring your StaFi and StaFiHub Validator

Monitor your CPU, RAM, Network and StaFi Chain stats

This solution uses Telegraf, Prometheus and Grafana to provide users and node managers a monitoring tool to analyze CPU, RAM, network interfaces and I/O wait along with metrics from Stafi Chain that will be displayed in the public dashboard. Why should you monitor your node using the public dashboard?

• Control the use of resources in your server.
• It allows you to detect problems, even before they happen.
• Maximizes the security of the StaFi network and minimizes the risk of slashing.
• Transparency: allows everyone to see how stable your validator works.

1. INSTALL TELEGRAF IN YOUR NODE SERVER

UBUNTU 20.04

wget -qO- https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/influxdb.asc >/dev/null source /etc/os-release
echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/$%7BID%7D ${VERSION_CODENAME} stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install telegraf
apt update
apt install telegraf

2. ADD STAFI NODE AND BASIC CONFIGURATION TO TELEGRAF

Modify the file /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf and use this 👉config file.

The file will be such that:

# Global Agent Configuration
[agent]
  hostname = "YOUR_NODE_ALIAS" # set this to a name you want to identify your node in the grafana dashboard
  flush_interval = "15s"
  interval = "15s"
# Input Plugins
[[inputs.cpu]]
    percpu = true
    totalcpu = true
    collect_cpu_time = false
    report_active = false
[[inputs.disk]]
    ignore_fs = ["devtmpfs", "devfs"]
[[inputs.io]]
[[inputs.mem]]
[[inputs.net]]
[[inputs.system]]
[[inputs.swap]]
[[inputs.netstat]]
[[inputs.processes]]
[[inputs.kernel]]
[[inputs.diskio]]
[[inputs.prometheus]]
#   ## An array of urls to scrape metrics from.
  urls = ["http://localhost:9615"]
[[inputs.prometheus]]
  urls = ["http://localhost:26660"]
# Output Plugin InfluxDB
[[outputs.influxdb]]
  database = "stafimainnet"
  urls = [ "https://stats.stakingbridge.com:8086" ] 
  username = "stafimainnet"
  password = "stafimainnetpassword"

3. CONFIGURE STAFIHUB AND ENABLE PROMETHEUS FOR MONITORING

Modify /home/your_username/.stafihub/config/config.toml and edit this three options:

[instrumentation]
# When true, Prometheus metrics are served under /metrics on
prometheus = true
# Address to listen for Prometheus collector(s) connections
prometheus_listen_addr = "127.0.0.1:26660"
# Instrumentation namespace
namespace = "tendermint_mainnet"

4. LAUNCH TELEGRAF AND MONITOR YOUR NODE!

• To launch Telegraf: sudo systemctl start telegraf
• Visit https://stats.stakingbridge.com/

From top side, use the search engine where it says ¨Node¨ and look for the alias that you have configured in the telegraf.conf file. For example, searching “Stakingbridge_TR-3970X” shows stats for stakingbridge.com validator.