Any news about RT View?

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Good evening everyone,

in the release notes of 1.21.1 a new upcoming external “RT View” (RT for real-time) monitoring tool which will be released separately is announced. I would like to ask if there are any news / previews about this tool?

Thanks! :coffee: :slight_smile:

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RT view seems to be some external tool:
–> Removed link as site was moved. See @lauris post!

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Hi,

It’s already available (still in early stages) you can check the RT View GitHub repository.

cheers,
Lauris

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Thank you! :slight_smile: Will have a look into this!

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Hey guys, :slight_smile:

is there some sort of roadmap available about RTView? :coffee:

I think this software is a great way to start monitoring all your nodes from one comfortable dashboard. However, there are still many issues in there which need to be solved! :coffee:

  • I strongly encourage the developer team to help users to get rid of the requirement of configuring apache2 or nginx as reverse proxy.
  • I also noticed that restarting RTView leads to the nodes being unable to reconnect to RTView. You have to start RTView first, and then therafter start the nodes.
  • I also have issues right now with the metrics about CPU, RAM, Network and Disk. They all show 0. Does this issue have anybody else?
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This decision is due to their wish not re-implement possible TLS-connections. Also see comments in https://youtu.be/RlOsh4wRQ28.

Understandable. Sad, due to RT View’s inability to run using non-root URLs people will not be able to use Lets Encrypt certificates. Nobody will be willing to pay for an extra certificate. Therefore >90% of internet accessible RT view installations will be running without encryption for now :frowning: .

Rt View has to be started first. Known issue - also see above youtube comments.

Most likely you’re missing the some trace forwarder-backends. I use the following settings

  "options": {
    "mapBackends": {
      "cardano.node-metrics": [
        "TraceForwarderBK",
        "EKGViewBK"
      ],
      "cardano.node.BlockFetchDecision.peers": [
        "TraceForwarderBK",
        "EKGViewBK"
      ],
      "cardano.node.ChainDB.metrics": [
        "TraceForwarderBK",
        "EKGViewBK"
      ],
      "cardano.node.Forge.metrics": [
        "TraceForwarderBK",
        "EKGViewBK"
      ],
      "cardano.node.metrics": [
        "TraceForwarderBK",
        "EKGViewBK"
      ],
      "cardano.node.version": [
        "TraceForwarderBK"
      ],
      "cardano.node.release": [
        "TraceForwarderBK"
      ],
      "cardano.node.commit": [
        "TraceForwarderBK"
      ]
    },

Scaling of the network usage/memory diagrams is not correct/not updated in my case. But CPU- and disk-diagrams work. My memory usage is visible in ‘pane view’ - it is there but not plotted correctly.

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Hey hanswurst,

thanks for your reply and the link to youtube. I just read the comments in there and basically everything I experienced is stated there as well!
Good to here that the service issue will be fixed in the next release. :slight_smile: :coffee:

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As there was no release-video, which seems to be the primary source of info for most :wink: , some may not have noticed that version 0.2 was released. It turns the configuration in json file-format, and fixes the scaling issues on the graphs.
It only seems to show complete data for cardano-node version 1.23.0 (I always one relay to test out new node versions before release). The change log states it has only been tested with nodes 1.23.0 and 1.22.1 - which have not been officially released. So I guess most operators are still on 1.21.1…

Edit: Ok, 1.23.0 has just been released. So, this will be the go-to release for RT view now :slight_smile:

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I upgraded to 1.23.0 and I’m still using grafana to monitor the nodes… no rush for me to use RTview for the moment :grinning:

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