Guide on how to monitor Peers In connections on Grafana

Staking & Delegation Operate a Stake Pool
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Hello there o/

While setting up my Grafana Dahsboards a little while ago, i couldn’t find any “Connected peers IN” metrics, out of the box. So i wrote a little and simple script that can do that, and export it to Prometheus every minute.

I though someone else might be interested, so i wrote a guide on my pool Blog there :

It’s certainly not perfect, but well, it works :slight_smile:

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Thanks. I had been looking for something like this.

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You’re welcome :slight_smile:

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When running in P2P mode, you can get some really nice stats directly from the node, obviating the need for tcp connection analysis with a tool like ss.:

curl -s -H 'Accept: application/json' http:/localhost:12788 | jq '.cardano.node.metrics.connectionManager'

{
  "duplexConns": {
    "type": "g",
    "val": 4
  },
  "incomingConns": {
   "type": "g",
   "val": 19
  },
  "outgoingConns": {
    "type": "g",
    "val": 50
  },
  "prunableConns": {
    "type": "g",
    "val": 1
  },
  "unidirectionalConns": {
    "type": "g",
    "val": 64
  }
}

You can then plug that directly into Grafana.

I can’t wait for P2P to be fully rolled out.

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Nice one, thanks for sharing