chia_exporter VS chia-monitor

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

I have an Ubuntu 22.04 box running Chia, and one third-party script, Chia Monitor. I also have a Windows 11 box in my office. Both sytems were running Chia 1.7.0.

I'm really happy with chia-monitor

If you're like me and run the Chia-monitor to monitor your farm and harvesters, you may have to reinstall it from the chia-monitor directory with the command pipenv install --python=3.9 .

Look at the Chia Monitor. Its using RPC for all metrics. https://github.com/philippnormann/chia-monitor

I know you're both fans of the Prometheus/Grafana stack. Do you have a preferred exporter for farmer metrics? I like Philipp Normann's [Chia Monitor](https://github.com/philippnormann/chia-monitor) because it uses Chia's RPC API rather than mtail'ing logs, and it has the potential to replace Chiadog too. I would like to see the Chia devs continue to provide a wide set of metrics for these exporters to pull, if you could please give them a gentle nudge!

Grafana dashboards can be really nice. I've been monitoring my farm and harvester for months now using chia-monitor as it provides me with all the information I care about, and I can check it on my phone.