Polkadot
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 Polkadot 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.
Overall Availability
Bootstrapper availability through all available transports
Bootstrappers Status Timeline (Overall)
Availiblity by Transport
Bootstrapper availability by transport
Bootstrappers Status Timeline (TCP)
Bootstrappers Status Timeline (WebSocket)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Measurement Tools
Our network monitoring employs advanced crawling and probing tools and techniques to gather comprehensive data about network health, topology, and performance
Our Tools
DAS Guardian
A Data Availability Sampling tool to asses Ethereum Node's real custody
Bitswap Sniffer
A CID sniffer for content in IPFS over Bitswap and DHT requests
Tiros
A performance measurement tool for Kubo and IPFS-hosted websites.
Parsec
A DHT and IPNI lookup performance measurement tool.
Ants
A DHT monitoring tool for NAT'd peers.
Hermes
A lightweight GossipSub tracer.
Nebula
A network agnostic DHT crawler and monitoring tool