I am a curious person. I have read dozens of books on Bitcoin, Austrian economics, cryptography, and economic history among other adjacent topics.
Running a full verification Bitcoin node and building custom monitoring tools helped me understand many of the nuances of Bitcoin. The attached image is from my custom built 11 pane tmux dashboard that monitors all of the Bitcoin parameters that matter to me. Each pane required a deep dive into that specific aspect of the Bitcoin network. 0: Blockchain and latest block statistics 1: Recent blocks and their timestamps, # of txs, size 2: Hashrate and difficulty 3: Peers and peering protocol statistics 4: Top peering networks by ASN 5: Peering clients and statistics 6: Fee estimates and UTXO stats 7: Mempool sorted by largest fees 8: Mempool and node stats 9: btop - node system monitoring tool 10: Debug log.
The one thing I do not monitor is the price. Because that is the only thing everyone else cares about, yet it is the least interesting aspect of Bitcoin.
Are there other aspects of node monitoring I am not covering that I should look into?
I am a curious person. I have read dozens of books on Bitcoin, Austrian economics, cryptography, and economic history among other adjacent topics.
Running a full verification Bitcoin node and building custom monitoring tools helped me understand many of the nuances of Bitcoin. The attached image is from my custom built 11 pane tmux dashboard that monitors all of the Bitcoin parameters that matter to me. Each pane required a deep dive into that specific aspect of the Bitcoin network.
0: Blockchain and latest block statistics
1: Recent blocks and their timestamps, # of txs, size
2: Hashrate and difficulty
3: Peers and peering protocol statistics
4: Top peering networks by ASN
5: Peering clients and statistics
6: Fee estimates and UTXO stats
7: Mempool sorted by largest fees
8: Mempool and node stats
9: btop - node system monitoring tool
10: Debug log.
The one thing I do not monitor is the price. Because that is the only thing everyone else cares about, yet it is the least interesting aspect of Bitcoin.
Are there other aspects of node monitoring I am not covering that I should look into?