HNT Miner Monitor

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Overview

This repo is used to produce metrics from miner api's and the Helium blockchain. We can use the metrics to diagnose, alert, and prevent poor mining performance. Currently we extract the following metrics:

Hotspot API

• activity metrics
• block height
• reward counts (15 minute, 1 hour, 1 day, 7 days, 30 days)
• reward scale
• witnessed
• witnesses

Bobcat API

• block height
• cpu temperatures
• height gap
• miner height
• sync status

LongAP

• block height
• height gap
• miner connected
• miner height
• online status
• sync status

Nebra

• block height
• bluetooth connected
• frequency
• height gap
• lora status
• miner connected
• miner height
• relayed
• sync percent
• sync status

Sensecap API

• antenna gain
• block height
• cpu temperature
• cpu used
• dialable
• height gap
• is healthy
• memory total
• memory used
• nat type
• miner connected
• miner height
• relayed
• sd total
• sd used
• sync status

System Requirements

Minimum system resources to run this stack are. This will support 5 miners with decent activity

• CoreI5
• 6GB RAM
• 7200 RPM Disk
• x86 / x64 systems (no ARM support)

Prerequisite

Linux +(MacOS): Without using docker

If you plan to not use docker to manage your metric collection, you will need to have your monitoring platform setup by using prometheus, prometheus push gateway, and grafana. The pushgateway, from prometheus, will allow us to push metrics to prometheus instead of trying to host the metrics ourselves on an http endpoint.

• Prometheus

  • prometheus push gateway
  • prometheus

• Grafana

  • grafana

• JQ

  • jq

Linux +(MacOS) & Windows: Using docker and docker-compose

Linux +(MacOS)

You can install docker and docker-compose by running the hnt_monitor.sh script. This will install all of the dependencies necessary, walk you through a setup wizard, and deploy the service. With docker we can create the entire monitoring stack using docker-compose.

$> ./hnt_monitor.sh

If you want to only install the dependencies and not setup and deploy, you can pass in the argument prereq to the hnt_monitor.sh script.

$> ./hnt_monitor.sh prereq

Windows

You will need to install docker and docker-compose manually. You can do that by installing docker desktop for windows.

• docker

Quick Start: Linux +(MacOS) only

Linux +(MacOS): setup & installation

The hnt_monitor.sh script will install the necessary software and walk you through setting up the monitor stack. Follow the prompts, input your miners, and let the script install the platform

$> ./hnt_monitor.sh

Deep Dive

Linux +(MacOS): Without docker

Navitage to the src/conf/ directory and add your miners hotspot address (the public address assigned to the miner on the blockchain "112nVe...") to the address.list file. Next, update the hnt_monitor.conf file with your prometheus push gateway host and port, <your_miner>_monitor=true, and supply your miners addresses. Then run the hnt monitor script manually in the src/bin directory. You can visit the host:port of the machine running prometheus pushgaeway and see the new metrics.

$> ./src/bin/hnt_monitor

Run in the background if you want to make it a service

$> ./src/bin/hnt_monitor &

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NOTE

• *_addresses=          is always referring to the hotspot public address found on the blockchain and explorer. This is the long character string like 112vGthen34DVHjnj...

• *_ips=                      is always referring to the hotspot private ip addresses that is assigned by your internal router. 192.168.2.1

• *_serial_numbers  is always referring to the hotspot unique id identifier that your vendor has supplied

You can add multiple miners by quoting and separating with a space. "address1 address2 address3"

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Linux +(MacOS) & Windows: docker without docker-compose

Run the hnt monitor script standalone

$> docker build -t hnt_monitor -f build/docker/Dockerfile .
$> docker run --rm -it hnt_monitor help     # help menu
$> docker run -d -e HNT_HOTSPOT_MONITOR=true -e HNT_HOTSPOT_ADDRESSES="12345..." -e HNT_PROMETHEUS_PG_HOST=http://my.prometheus-pushgateway.host:9091 hnt_monitor  # Enable hotspot monitoring from helium api

Linux +(MacOS) & Windows: docker with docker-compose

Linux +(MacOS): Automated Setup & Deploy

Run the hnt_monitor.sh script to configure the docker-compose settings and launch the stack.

$> ./hnt_monitor.sh

Linux +(MacOS) & Windows: Manual Setup & Deploy

Edit the hnt_monitor.yml file and add your miner information to the hnt_monitor service environment variables.

  hnt_monitor:
    container_name: hnt_monitor
    image: hnt_monitor:latest
    build:
      dockerfile: ./build/docker/Dockerfile
      context: .
    environment:
      DO_NOT_REMOVE: "setup"
      HNT_HOTSPOT_MONITOR: "true"
      HNT_HOTSPOT_ADDRESSES: "<myminersaddress> "   # Update your miner address on this line before launching the stack
      HNT_PROMETHEUS_PG_HOST: "http://prometheus_pushgateway:9091"
      HNT_DEBUG: "true"
    networks:
      hnt_monitor:
        ipv4_address: 10.30.0.05
    depends_on:
      - prometheus_pushgateway

Check the variables table below for more options that the hnt_monitor supports. Once you're satisfied, you can run the docker-compose, up command, below to launch the stack.

$> docker-compose -f hnt_monitor.yml up -d --build

Once docker-compose completes, you can verify the endpoints in your browser. Open your favorite web browser and check the following endpoints

Application	Endpoint
grafana	http://localhost:3000
prometheus	http://localhost:9090
prometheus pushgateway	http://localhost:9091

Upgrading

Linux +(MacOS): Automated Upgrade

Using the hnt_monitor.sh you can provide the update command to pull down the latest release and deploy. This will automatically reset any local changes you have made so be sure to copy your work to another directory if you have done your own development. You do not need to worry about the hnt_monitor.yml changess that exist. The hnt_monitor.sh script will use its own .yml file

$> ./hnt_monitor.sh update

Linux +(MacOS) & Windows: Manual updates

If you have to update manually there are a couple of things you need to do so you dont lose your settings. Make sure to do the following to update your version safely.

• Copy the existing hnt_monitor.yml to another directory
• Git pull the repo down and checkout the release version or download and unzip the release
• Copy your hnt_monitor.yml to the new release
• Then run docker-compose -f hnt_monitor.yml up -d --build

Verify Installtation

Check the prometheus push gateway to see metrics have been pushed from the hnt_monitor. This service is listening 9091, navigate to http://localhost:9091 in your browser. You should see a screen like below, with all of the available metrics from the miner collector.

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NOTE

Initial etl processing takes up to 2 minutes to push data. Please allow time for the metrics to be pushed before verification.

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Docker Logs

$> docker logs -f hnt_monitor

Help

$> docker run -it --rm hnt_monitor help

Variables

Name	Default	Description	Required
HNT_BLOCKS_URL	api.helium.io/v1/blocks	The helium blocks api url.	no
HNT_BOBCAT_IPS		If bobcat monitoring enabled, list of ips. Ex: '192.x.x.2 192.x.x.3 192.x.x.etc'	no
HNT_BOBCAT_MONITOR	false	Enable or disable bobcat monitoring. Boolean: (true or false)	no
HNT_DEBUG	false	Turn on debug logging. Boolean: (true or false)	no
HNT_HELIUM_MONITOR	true	Enable or disable helium monitoring. Boolean: (true or false)	no
HNT_HOTSPOT_ADDRESSES		Hotspot miner addresses to get metrics from. Ex: 'address1 address2 address3 etc'	no
HNT_HOTSPOT_MONITOR	false	Enable hotspot monitoring from helium api. Boolean: (true or false)	no
HNT_HOTSPOT_URL	api.helium.io/v1/hotspots	The helium hotspot api url.	no
HNT_LOGFILE	stdout	Send logs to this file	no
HNT_LOGPATH	/dev/	Send logs to this path	no
HNT_LONGAP_ADDRESSES		If longap monitoring enabled, list of ips. Ex: 'address1 address2 address3'	no
HNT_LONGAP_MONITOR	false	Enable or disable bobcat monitoring. Boolean: (true or false)	no
HNT_NEBRA_IPS		If nebra monitoring enabled, list of ips. Ex: '192.x.x.2 192.x.x.3 192.x.x.etc'	no
HNT_NEBRA_MONITOR	false	Enable or disable nebra monitoring. Boolean: (true or false)	no
HNT_PROJECT	hnt_monitor	The name of the metric prefix when sending to prometheus.	no
HNT_PROMETHEUS_PG_HOST	http://localhost:9091	The prometheus push gateway hostname.	yes
HNT_SENSECAP_API_KEY		Api key for sensecap	no
HNT_SENSECAP_MONITOR	false	Enable or disable sensecap monitoring. Boolean: (true or false)	no
HNT_SENSECAP_SERIAL_NUMBERS		If sensecap monitoring enabled, list of Serial numbers of the sensecap miners	no
HNT_TRACE	false	Turn on trace logging. Produces more logs than debug. Boolean: (true or false)	no

What's next

Scheduling

Setup Grafana

Create Dashboards

Create Alerts

Advanced Settings

Hosted Solution

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