ethstats server

Note: in early development, not production ready!

Websocket server to report Ethereum node stats.

Build

If you want to build the ethstats server by yourself or start hacking on it, just install this repo using the command:

$ go get -v github.com/eskoltech/ethstats-server

Also, you can use the make utility to build an executable. Using make b will compile it, and the resulting binary can be found in the build/bin/ directory.

Running

In order to start the ethstats server, you need to provide a secret. This secret will be used to authorize nodes to report stats to this server. Note that if the Ethereum node can't be logged into the server, the server can't receive any notifications from any node. For example, to start a server with default network options and a weak secret, just execute:

$ ethstats-server --secret 1234

Note that for default, the server is started at localhost:3000 when is not started using make start

You can view the default network options using the -h flag, and customize it for your requirements. Also, you can start the server using the make start command, and customize the make flags to adapt it to your needs. You can modify this flags:

Variable	Description	Default
ADDR	Server address	192.168.0.20:3000
SECRET	Server secret	123456789

If you want to update the ADDR variable, execute the make task like make start ADDR=10.0.0.15:3000

If all is right, you will see some like this:

        __  .__              __          __
  _____/  |_|  |__   _______/  |______ _/  |_  ______
_/ __ \   __\  |  \ /  ___/\   __\__  \\   __\/  ___/
\  ___/|  | |   Y  \\___ \  |  |  / __ \|  |  \___ \
 \___  >__| |___|  /____  > |__| (____  /__| /____  >
     \/          \/     \/            \/          \/  v0.1.0

INFO[2019-02-10T17:19:23+01:00] Starting websocket server in 192.168.0.15:3000
INFO[2019-02-10T17:19:23+01:00] Node relay started successfully
INFO[2019-02-10T17:19:23+01:00] Server started successfully

Now you can attach nodes to report stats to this server using the address and port where the server is listening.

Docker fans: you can build and run ethstats server using docker. Just execute the task make docker-start and you are ready to go!