Bootstrappers

Name: Filecoin Bootstrap Node Availability
Creator: ProbeLab

Monitoring and Alerting

Status and availability of bootstrap nodes, a critical component of every network. Bootstrapper nodes help new peers discover and connect to the network.

ProbeLab's monitoring infrastructure is probing the set of Filecoin bootstrappers indicated in this repository. Our probes are checking up on nodes' connectivity every 5 mins, utilising all available transports (i.e., TCP, QUIC, Websocket, WebTransport).

How to read the dashboards

Upon three failed attempts to connect to a bootstrap node with any of the transport options (i.e., if none of the attempts with any of the transports is successful), the node is considered offline and an alert is triggered.
If a node is offline, the corresponding tile at the top section of the dashboard turns red.
Upon each failed attempt to connect to a node with a particular transport, the disruption is indicated as a red stripe in the timeseries dashboard of the corresponding transport.
Unless all attempts to connect to a node with any of the transports fail, the top section tile remains green.

Below is the list of PeerIDs that are currently being probed in the order in which they appear under each transport protocol.

Operator	PeerID
ChainSafe 0	12D3KooWKKkCZbcigsWTEu1cgNetNbZJqeNtysRtFpq7DTqw3eqH
ChainSafe 1	12D3KooWGnkd9GQKo3apkShQDaq1d6cKJJmsVe6KiQkacUk1T8oZ
ChainSafe 2	12D3KooWHQRSDFv4FvAjtU32shQ7znz7oRbLBryXzZ9NMK2feyyH
FIL DevTTY	12D3KooWAke3M2ji7tGNKx3BQkTHCyxVhtV1CN68z6Fkrpmfr37F
chain.love	12D3KooWBF8cpp65hp2u9LK5mh19x67ftAam84z9LsfaquTDSBpt

Overall Availability

Bootstrapper availability through all available transports

Bootstrappers Status Timeline (Overall)

Availability by Probe Type

Bootstrapper availability for each probe type

Bootstrappers Status Timeline (TCP)

Bootstrappers

The bootstrappers that we probe and the probe types we use for each of them.

Name	Endpoint	Peer ID	Probe Types
ChainSafe 0	/dns/bootstrap-mainnet-0.chainsafe-fil.io/tcp/34000	12D3KooWKKkCZbcigsWTEu1cgNetNbZJqeNtysRtFpq7DTqw3eqH	TCP Connect
ChainSafe 1	/dns/bootstrap-mainnet-1.chainsafe-fil.io/tcp/34000	12D3KooWGnkd9GQKo3apkShQDaq1d6cKJJmsVe6KiQkacUk1T8oZ	TCP Connect
ChainSafe 2	/dns/bootstrap-mainnet-2.chainsafe-fil.io/tcp/34000	12D3KooWHQRSDFv4FvAjtU32shQ7znz7oRbLBryXzZ9NMK2feyyH	TCP Connect
chain.love (fil)	/dns/bootstrap.filecoin.chain.love/tcp/1235	12D3KooWBF8cpp65hp2u9LK5mh19x67ftAam84z9LsfaquTDSBpt	TCP Connect

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Latest Bootstrapper Probes

The following table shows the latest probes from our infrastructure in real-time. You can refresh the table in the upper right corner of the table.

Name	Probe Type	Result	Error	Timestamp

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