Individual Node Monitoring Service

The Factoid Authority (TFA) and De Facto has set up individual node monitoring which can be used by everyone for free:

• A web interface showing current active nodes is available at http://fct.tools/.

• Factom node monitoring discord bot: https://git.factoid.org/TFA/TFA-Bot​

• ​Monitoring Factom nodes with Grafana​

Local tools

Factomd comes with a few ways to monitor your node's health. The most obvious tool is the control panel found at localhost:8090. Information about the control panel can be found here Factomd control panel​

Factomd also used to come with more monitoring tools called Prometheus and Grafana. If you want to include them in your package, you can run Grafana and Prometheus docker images:

docker run -d --name=grafana -p 3001:3001 grafana/grafana
docker run -d --name=prometheus -p 9090:9090 prom/prometheus

To see Grafana, open http://localhost:3001

Setting up Grafana

1. First ensure you have Grafana open by visiting http://localhost:3001

2. The username is "admin" and password "admin". Be sure not to open this port to the world or anyone can log in!

3. You will be greeted by a page that has a button saying "Add data source". Click that

   • Name: Prometheus

   • Type: Prometheus

   • Ensure Default is checked

   • URL: http://prometheus:9090

4. Once all the fields are put in, click "Save and Test". You should be greeted by "Data source is working".

5. Now we have Prometheus as a datasource, let's get some graphs up. In the top left is the Grafana logo, click it, then dashboard, then import

   • Top Left > Dashboard > Import

6. A preconfigured dashboard can be found here: https://grafana.com/dashboards/4482

   • Input 4482 into the first input, then click Load

   • Make sure to select your prometheus source we added earlier from the dropdown menu next to Prometheus

   • Click import and your dashboard is now viewable.

7. Feel free to mess around and change things to your liking.