On Thursday I started migrating to node version 10.6.2. Since there is a new tracing implementation, I wanted to have that one too. There are quite some challenges to it.
First, all blocks are again replayed, so plan some outage time for your relays and block producer.
Default configuration disables tracing data for mempool, i.e. for your monitoring and gLiveView script it won’t show anything. You have to modify mempool tracing.
Speaking of gLiveView: I had to change the script a bit to show P2P data. Also had to upgrade to version 1.32.0. Older versions don’t work.
When compiling from source one has to compile cardano-tracer and start it before the node. I put it into start-mainnet.sh as a quick hack. There should be a smarter solution for this.
As of now I am running one relay on the new version and another doing the replay.
What’s your take?