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Bootstrappers

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 checking up on Ethereum bootstrapper 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.
discv5 discv4
PeerID: c845e51a5e470e445ad424f7cb516339237f469ad7b3c903221b5c49ce55863f
bootnode-aws-ap-southeast-1-001
UP
Probed 4 minutes ago
PeerID: f23ac6da7c02f84a425a47414be12dc2f62172cd16bd4c7e7efa02ebaa045605
bootnode-aws-us-east-1-001
UP
Probed 4 minutes ago
PeerID: 6b36f791352f15eb3ec4f67787074ab8ad9d487e37c4401d383f0561a0a20507
bootnode-hetzner-fsn
DOWN
Probed 1 minute ago
PeerID: ef2d7ab886910dc87075fbb607fdabccd45c587dc64e6bf4c9afc02a0844b1ad
bootnode-hetzner-hel
DOWN
Probed 1 minute ago

Overall Availability

Bootstrapper availability through all available transports

Bootstrappers Status Timeline (Overall)

Bootstrappers Status Timeline (Overall)

Shows when each bootstrapper was online (green) or offline (red). Each row is one bootstrapper, with its name or, if it has no name, its peer ID. Our bootstrapper monitor probes the endpoints of every bootstrapper regularly. Probes of a bootstrapper that follow each other within three minutes form one round. This timeline counts the probes of all types. A round is online if at least one probe of any type succeeded. A bar lasts until the status changes, so a time without probes keeps the last status. Hover over a bar to see its start and end time.

Data is provided as is, without warranty. Scraping and automated bulk extraction are not permitted. See our Terms of Use.

Availability by Probe Type

Bootstrapper availability for each probe type

Bootstrappers Status Timeline (Discv4 Ping)

Bootstrappers Status Timeline (Discv4 Ping)

Shows when each bootstrapper was online (green) or offline (red). Each row is one bootstrapper, with its name or, if it has no name, its peer ID. Our bootstrapper monitor probes the endpoints of every bootstrapper regularly. Probes of a bootstrapper that follow each other within three minutes form one round. This timeline counts only the Discv4 Ping probes. A round is online if at least one of these probes succeeded. A bar lasts until the status changes, so a time without probes keeps the last status. Hover over a bar to see its start and end time.

Data is provided as is, without warranty. Scraping and automated bulk extraction are not permitted. See our Terms of Use.

Bootstrappers Status Timeline (Discv4 FindNode)

Bootstrappers Status Timeline (Discv4 FindNode)

Shows when each bootstrapper was online (green) or offline (red). Each row is one bootstrapper, with its name or, if it has no name, its peer ID. Our bootstrapper monitor probes the endpoints of every bootstrapper regularly. Probes of a bootstrapper that follow each other within three minutes form one round. This timeline counts only the Discv4 FindNode probes. A round is online if at least one of these probes succeeded. A bar lasts until the status changes, so a time without probes keeps the last status. Hover over a bar to see its start and end time.

Data is provided as is, without warranty. Scraping and automated bulk extraction are not permitted. See our Terms of Use.

Bootstrappers

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

Name Endpoint Peer ID Probe Types
bootnode-aws-ap-southeast-1-001 enode://d860a01f9722d78051619d1e2351aba3f43f943f6f00718d1b9baa4101932a1f5011f16bb2b1bb35db20d6fe28fa0bf09636d26a87d31de9ec6203eeedb1f666@18.138.108.67:30303 c845e51a5e470e445ad424f7cb516339237f469ad7b3c903221b5c49ce55863f
Discv4 Ping Discv4 FindNode
bootnode-aws-us-east-1-001 enode://22a8232c3abc76a16ae9d6c3b164f98775fe226f0917b0ca871128a74a8e9630b458460865bab457221f1d448dd9791d24c4e5d88786180ac185df813a68d4de@3.209.45.79:30303 f23ac6da7c02f84a425a47414be12dc2f62172cd16bd4c7e7efa02ebaa045605
Discv4 Ping Discv4 FindNode
bootnode-hetzner-fsn enode://4aeb4ab6c14b23e2c4cfdce879c04b0748a20d8e9b59e25ded2a08143e265c6c25936e74cbc8e641e3312ca288673d91f2f93f8e277de3cfa444ecdaaf982052@157.90.35.166:30303 6b36f791352f15eb3ec4f67787074ab8ad9d487e37c4401d383f0561a0a20507
Discv4 Ping Discv4 FindNode
bootnode-hetzner-hel enode://2b252ab6a1d0f971d9722cb839a42cb81db019ba44c08754628ab4a823487071b5695317c8ccd085219c3a03af063495b2f1da8d18218da2d6a82981b45e6ffc@65.108.70.101:30303 ef2d7ab886910dc87075fbb607fdabccd45c587dc64e6bf4c9afc02a0844b1ad
Discv4 Ping Discv4 FindNode

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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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