I'm going to install this now on my full node, looks really cool! This is my node page: http://199.58.210.124/ Thanks, Charlie CharlieShrem.com | *Please **encrypt messages with my PGP key * On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Mike Hearn 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 wrote: > >> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Jameson Lopp >> wrote: >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Is your legacy SCM system holding you back? Join Perforce May 7 to find >> out: >> • 3 signs your SCM is hindering your productivity >> • Requirements for releasing software faster >> • Expert tips and advice for migrating your SCM now >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/perforce >> _______________________________________________ >> Bitcoin-development mailing list >> Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Is your legacy SCM system holding you back? Join Perforce May 7 to find > out: > • 3 signs your SCM is hindering your productivity > • Requirements for releasing software faster > • Expert tips and advice for migrating your SCM now > http://p.sf.net/sfu/perforce > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > >