chia-monitoring

This repo is meant to provide a basic monitoring for your chia farming/plotting hardware. You should be able to find everything you need here

Features

• Near realtime monitoring for used disk space, disk utilization, RAM and CPU usage
• Health overview over your HDDs and SSDs
• Historical data for as long as you want (Provided you have space to store them)

Screenshots

Requirements

For all of this to work, you will need some software installed on your system. This can be the plotter, the farm system or basically any system you want to use as long as it can run docker

Installation

docker

For ubuntu follow the instructions from docker.com. For other operating systems please see the docs.

docker-compose

Follow the instructions from docker.com

prometheus & grafana

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/speedmann/chia-monitoring
cd chia-monitoring

Edit the prometheus/prometheus.yml

everything on one system

If you only have one system which you like to monitor, you can use this config snippet

global:
  scrape_interval:     10s
  evaluation_interval: 10s
  scrape_timeout:      10s

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'prometheus'
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:9090']
  - job_name: 'node'
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:9100']
        labels:
          host_name: "mysystem"

multiple systems

If you have more than one system you'd like to monitor, simply repeat the -targets part as often as you have systems to monitor e.g.:

global:
  scrape_interval:     10s
  evaluation_interval: 10s
  scrape_timeout:      10s

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'prometheus'
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:9090']
  - job_name: 'node'
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:9100']
        labels:
          host_name: "plotter"
      - targets: ['10.0.0.2:9100']
        labels:
          host_name: "harvester"

Prometheus is now configured. To run prometheus and grafana do sudo docker-compose up -d

node_exporter

This has to be done on every system which should be monitored.

Get the download url from their github and download it to the system you want to monitor

wget https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v1.1.2/node_exporter-1.1.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xfvz node_exporter-1.1.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Then setup a systemd service to automatically start the exporter

sudo cp node_exporter.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo useradd -s /sbin/nologin node_exporter
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/node_exporter/textfile_collector
sudo chown node_exporter: /var/lib/node_exporter/textfile_collector
sudo cp node_exporter-1.1.2.linux-amd64/node_exporter /usr/sbin/node_exporter
sudo mkdir /etc/sysconfig
sudo cp sysconfig.node_exporter /etc/sysconfig/node_exporter
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable node_exporter
sudo systemctl start node_exporter

For S.M.A.R.T data to be available for monitoring you need to create a new cronjob which runs every minute. To do so edit your /etc/crontab file and add this

* * * * * root /usr/bin/python3 /home/<yourusername>/chia-monitoring/smartmon.py | sponge /var/lib/node_exporter/textfile_collector/smart.prom

Also you need to install moreutils sudo apt install moreutils

After it is done you will be able to access your grafana dashboard at <host ip>:3000. Login with the default username/password admin/admin. Please change the password after first login!

TODOs

• Make installation easier
• Add chia farm monitoring (Plots, Proofs, Challenge response time, etc.)
• Add SSL encryption and make it possible to access from outside the home-network
• Alerting (Telegram?)
• Make the dashboards nicer

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

License

GNU General Public License v3.0