chia-tea VS chia_exporter

Heyho, I'm the developer of Chia-Tea, a monitoring solution for the chia blockchain. Our monitoring is getting more and more solid. Our development pace is rather slow compared to similar solutions but we also spent a lot of time on a solid foundation rather than adding features (code stability, security, etc). Since this is changing slowly as our foundation is getting better and better, I was considering for a long time to finally add a frontend.

Still using our own lib chia-tea. It does does not have a fancy guy (we use just a discord bot) but it is easy to start, solidly engineered and has been working very good for us. The data is stored in sqlite so it is easy to build dashboards on top. Not sure if it fits you, but it definitely fits us very well especially since we have a multi-machine setup over the internet.

I'm monitoring a machine with my own library Chia-Tea and part of the monitoring is watching the sync status of the farmers wallet. Almost everyday I get notifications from my bot that the wallet looses sync for a duration of 35 mins. Neither from the chia blockchain code nor from the machine setup could I find anything. Any ideas?

Hey u/scottayydot, it can run on windows but it will collect less data there. We don't have an example db laying around but you can simply run it for a minute (even without chia). Also check out the protobuf files hardware.proto and chia.proto since the database tables are automatically generated from the communication protocol.

I’m a bit of a monitoring nerd, and when I first got into chia I wrote the chia-exporter for Prometheus and put together chiamon, which just glues together a bunch of industry-standard monitoring tools (which I was already running anyways). Seeing people struggle with installing and configuring all that showed me that there’s a need for a simpler solution for less-technical people who only care about monitoring chia. More than I was willing or able to take on, so kudos. I probably don’t have a lot of time to help with your project either, but I’d be happy to help out where I can.

I've continued to improve my Chia monitoring (despite still not farming any XCH; but that was never really the point, right?). I'm collecting logs from both the Chia node and the plotting processes with promtail and loki. I've also added wallet balances to the prometheus chia_exporter (I find it looks much better to show my wallet balance in mojo, not 0 thanks to some official and unofficial faucets).

Nice! I made one too: https://github.com/retzkek/chia_exporter