Bitcoin/Ethereum DevOps Monitoring Challenge

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Companies today are working on building monitoring solutions to have better insight on the health and performance of their computing systems. Your challenge today is to set up a monitoring stack to capture a Bitcoin or Ethereum or your favorite Blockchain network CLI runningfrom two live EC2 instances!

All tools and AWS services are ​ FREE! IF YOU USE T2.MICRO EC2 INSTANCES Enjoyed the challenge? Intrested in Insight? Send a PDF containing your dashboarding running to [email protected] with the subject "Berkeley Blockchain-DevOps" .

Tips On Getting Started:

• Dive Deep into tools! Then build fast!
• Find resources online.
• Keep it in the cloud.
• Automate simulations.

Monitoring Challenge + Starting Resources:

1. Set up 3 t2.micro AWS EC2 instances (you may have to up the size to handle the CLI)
   • What is AWS? (link)
   • How to create an AWS account. (link)
   • Launching and ssh-ing into your first EC2 instance. (link) (link)
     • Bash commands and scripting 101 (link)
   • Install your preferred blockchain node CLI on 2 EC2 instances.
2. Configure Prometheus to monitor 2 EC2 instances.
   • What is Prometheus? (link)
3. Connect Prometheus to Grafana.
   • What is Grafana? (link)
4. Collect and display cpu, memory, and disk space usage.
5. Use your monitored nodes (EC2 instances) to begin validating transactions on the given testnet.

Optional:

• Collect and display network traffic rate, upload rate, and download rate.