Witness Essentials: Watcher received an update, which includes:
- New command:
testwhich can be used to test notifications & failover in case of missed blocks. - After a specific time, since the last missed block (1 day default), key-rotation rounds and the missed block threshold will be reset to prevent unnecessary failover
- The
intervalvariable inside config.json is in minutes but has been in seconds in code. This has been changed to minutes now.
Github: https://github.com/witness-essentials/watcher
PR: https://github.com/witness-essentials/watcher/pull/3 (plus PR #4 and #5)
What is Witness Essentials?
Witness Essentials is a collection of important tools for witnesses.
Witness Essentials: Watcher is a script for Steem Witnesses to watch for missed blocks, failover towards backup-nodes & alert via multiple services.
- Multiple alert options available (TELEGRAM, SMS <NEXMO, TWILIO>, EMAIL)
- Transaction signing either via private signing-key or private active-key
- RPC Failover
- Rotation between keys supported
- Robust error handling
Github Organization: https://github.com/witness-essentials
Getting Started
You can find a detailed guide on Github
Update Information
- Update your packages if you're running it locally (npm update/yarn)
- Add
"MAX_AGE_LAST_MISSED_DAYS": 1to yourconfig.json.1is the default value and should be replaced depending how long it takes for your witness to produce a block. - For testing, simply run:
npm run testoryarn run test. You're then able to choose between testing failover via real key signing (+ choose if you want to skip disabling of witness) and testing notifications. - Make sure the
interval(minutes) inside config.json is correctly set
Quick note: the test command is currently not available via docker, only directly via npm/yarn.
Alright, that's it regarding the new update.
I hope my fellow witnesses find this useful as monitoring & watching your witness-nodes is quite important.
All the best,
Wolf
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Thanks for the contribution, @therealwolf! A great update as always, and I'm sure it be helpful for all the witnesses who use it!
I don't really have anything to remark about the quality of the code, as that seems mostly great, but there a couple of (tiny, insignificant) things that could be fixed by using ESLint for example. Other than that there is really not much to say, other than keep up the great work you are doing for Steem!
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Thank you for your review, @amosbastian! Keep up the good work!
Thank you @amosbastian, yes I need to work on ESLint and unit-tests!
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Hey buddy
I maybe jusy spitballing here with this thought.
Twitch & Steem (would make the perfect parternship)
Dont get me wrong here as i am not the most up to date how the blockchain works but as far as i am aware you can record an event without ot being altered.
With this being said i think gaming results being recorded would be a major breakthrough.
Let me give you an example of my idea
Lets take the game Call of Duty:
Lots of gamers play this and a lot of the top players are on twitch.
Lets say player pewdiepudding stats are tracked on the blockchain.
And the player has an automatic post generated on the steemit blockchain and the player has the option of uploading automatically the days best 5 frags to dtube.
This would give gamers a way to show appreciation by upvoting there favourite gamer and also being able to see true stats.
The last sentence, (Do you believe that my work is valuable for Steem? Then please vote for me as witness.) Without thinking twice answer Yes. I am pretty sure that you spend a lot of time for everyone. respect
Great work been done by you witness to keep steem growing and steemit moving forward. Continue to move forward in your
Very good work! I hope witnesses find this useful! :)
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Thank you for another good update @therealwolf 👍🏼
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That would be VERY useful!
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