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IPFS Network Monitoring

IPFS is a peer-to-peer network that finds and transfers data by its content identifier (CID), not by its location. ProbeLab crawls the public Amino DHT to count the nodes and to show which software they run and where they are. We also measure content routing through the DHT and IPNI, Bitswap traffic, public HTTP gateways, the bootstrap nodes and the performance of Kubo.

2,840
2.8K
Compared to 1 week ago
-20%
Online Peers
Oct. 21, 2026, 10:16 a.m. UTC
Last updated 3 minutes ago
149,599,465
149.6M
Compared to 1 week ago
+44%
Daily Unique CIDs
Oct. 21, 2026, midnight UTC
Last updated 10 hours ago
137,592,344
137.6M
Compared to 1 week ago
+8%
Daily IPNI Requests
Oct. 21, 2026, midnight UTC
Last updated 10 hours ago

Monitored Components

Bootstrappers

Kubo

Topology

DHT

Bitswap

IPNI

Gateways

Security

Core Statistics

Network structure, peer distribution, client diversity, and connection patterns analysis across the IPFS network.

Network Size

Network Size

Shows an estimate of the number of unique peers in the IPFS network per week (Monday to Sunday, UTC). The two bars are stacked on top of each other.

  • DHT Servers: the number of unique peer IDs that our Nebula crawler found in the DHT in that week.
  • DHT Clients: the number of unique peer IDs that connected to the IPFS bootstrap nodes in that week, from the logs of these nodes. We do not subtract the DHT servers from this number, so it can also count peers that are in the DHT Servers bar.
  • DHT Server IP Addresses (line): the number of unique IP addresses of the DHT servers that Nebula found in that week.

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

Amino DHT Client vs Server Node Estimate

Unique Agents

Unique Agents

Shows the number of unique software agents per week (Monday to Sunday, UTC). Bootstrappers counts the agents of the peers that connected to the IPFS bootstrap nodes, from the logs of these nodes. DHT counts the agents of the peers that our Nebula crawler found in the IPFS DHT, for comparison. The software agent strings have not been refined or processed, so each version of a software agent counts as a separate agent.

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

Unique Software Agents seen in the IPFS Amino DHT

Related Work

Blog posts, papers and talks by the ProbeLab team about IPFS.

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Blog post

Can libp2p punch through NATs?

How efficient is libp2p’s DCUtR protocol in connecting actual peers directly?

IMC '26 Conference Paper
Paper

Large-Scale Measurement of NAT Traversal for the Decentralized Web: A Case Study of DCUtR in IPFS

The promise of decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) systems is fundamentally gated by the challenge of Network Address Translation (NAT) traversal, with existing solutions often reintroducing the …

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Blog post

Optimistic Provide: How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster

How a statistical approach cut IPFS content publishing times by over one order of magnitude.

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Blog post

IPFS Gateway Performance Measurements

The ProbeLab team has been busy building new IPFS Gateway performance measurements

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Blog post

ProbeLab's 2025 Review and 2026 Outlook

What we've achieved in 2025 and what we're targeting in 2026

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Paper

Measuring and Optimizing Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Case Study of the InterPlanetary File System

The Internet's transformation from a decentralized network of networks into a landscape dominated by centralized platforms has created systemic risks including infrastructure fragility, censorship vulnerabilities, …