RTView showing 2 forged blocks, but my Stakepool still produced 0 blocks according to pooltools, adastat or adapools

[Kunkka]

I’ve seen my node’s RTView show 1 forged block in epoch 261, and 1 more in epoch 262.

But on the different SPO utility websites, I can see that my pool (SPFR) still didn’t send any block to the blockchain. I’ve searched for orphan blocks too, in case I lost 2 slots battle (which is quite unlikely), but they are none.

I’ve also been trying to grep the node logs for the following, without any result:

• TraceNodeIsLeader
• Leading
• Forged

I don’t understand why RTView is showing me forged block, and I’d really like to know if I’m missing blocks here because of some misconfiguration. I don’t know where to look for answers. Do you have any ideas ?

[laplasz]

Hi!

Interesting that you dont have TraceNodeIsLeader event in your logs…
query the forge promethues metrics with curl localhost:12798/metrics | grep cardano_node_metrics_Forge

but notice you have a lot of missed slots…

Investigating missed slots

Hello everyone, Last week I started seeing my missed slots count increase in Grafana and I’m trying to figure out why. Right now, my core is missing a slot every 3-4 minutes. This seems to be a constant rate. The core has 4 relays connected to/from in, 2 that are within the same LAN and 2 that are outside. Each of the 4 relays have ± 20 peers (in and out) All machine (relays & cores) are at ~5-6% CPU and 40% RAM Nothing changed in the setup/configuration for weeks The core logs: Mar 03 02:1…

That is not a good sign for proper node performance…
by the way are you using cncli tool to get your scheduled blocks - you can get the schedule for this epoch - it is very useful to be ready for the block creation

GitHub - AndrewWestberg/cncli: A community-based cardano-node CLI tool

[Kunkka]

Hi there !

Grepping on prometheus for cardano_node_metrics_Forge did not get me any result. I’ve put the prometheus metrics on this pastebin.

I have a lot of missed slots but they seem to be stable. I think that they come from my relay regular restart (for topology update), but I’ll further investigate that.

I did not know cncli, but it seems like a very interesting tool. I’ll integrate this with the next cardano-node in my docker. Do you have any other ideas?

[laplasz]

also would be interesting to see the delay on receiving slots…
check this post:

Network delay calculation based on logs

Hi There! Recently my pool missed to create a valid block. and the reason was that the block was produced not on the highest block but on the previous one. So I tried to calculate what was the delay time between the highest block production time and the actual time when the pool was received it. so here is the command - right now it only works on text format, not json format: grep -h "new tip" node.log | sed -rn "s/\[(.*)\].\[(.*)\].* ([0-9]+)/\2,\3/p" | awk -F, -v threshold=2 '{"date +%s.%3N…

and do you have chrony installed? follow this guide if not

Chris-Graffagnino/Jormungandr-for-Newbs/blob/master/docs/jormungandr_node_setup_guide.md