lntop VS raspibolt

lntop v0.3.1 (Released: 14th January 2022) - https://github.com/edouardparis/lntop/releases

The easiest option that I have found... Run lntop with the routing view option enabled. All transactions and routing attempts through LND are shown. It will show success if the payment / route was successful, failed if the transaction / route attempt failed due to a problem with a different node which you have no control over, or linkfail if the failure is caused by your node. If the failure is your node (linkfail) it will show information why such as "TEMPORARY_CHANNEL_FAILURE HTLC_ADD_FAILED could not add downstream htlc".

lntop v0.3.1: Release page - Install guide

Number of enhancement/bugfixes were added: https://github.com/edouardparis/lntop/releases/tag/v0.2.0

For those interested in setting up a their own lightning node, check out Raspibolt, Umbrel, Plebnet .

That said, the benefits of using and understanding lnd directly are huge. I strongly recommend the raspibolt tutorial to anybody who is willing to learn to run a simple linux system via command line.

So overall I recommend you to start from the scratch using at least a 1TByte SSD, better 2. And either follow https://raspibolt.org/ for full sovereignty. Or if that seems too difficult for you look into https://raspiblitz.org/.

If you want an actual guide with a lot of the bells and whistles explained I recommend https://raspibolt.org/

The main sources of information to build my full node are Ministry Of Nodes’ video tutorials on YouTube and the incredible RaspiBolt guide. Both have been very useful to get me started in this beautiful project, but I faced some issues every now and then due to the fact that I was dealing with newer versions of the apps and things didn’t work out of the box all the time so I had to RTFM here and there.