Iris Alerting Bot

Today Chainflow and Vitwit are releasing an Iris Network alerting bot. It's a simple, yet effective, open source bot that sends Telegram or email alerts based on key Iris validator performance metrics.

It also sends sanity checks twice per day. The sanity checks confirm the validator is voting as expected (if it is!).

The bot is an offshoot of the Cosmos Validator Mission Control monitoring and alerting tool we built. You can find a similar bot for Cosmos here.

We hope the Iris Network community finds this tool beneficial. It's part of our commitment to supporting the networks we believe in, within the resource constraints of a smaller, independent validator operator.

You can find the bot here. Please leave any feedback in the same repo.

P.S. - You can support this effort by delegating to the Chainflow Iris Validator 🙏

(Originally published here.)

• Iris alerting bot will send alerts to your telegram account about your validator status(jailed or voting) and about missed blocks (based on the configured thershold).

Install Prerequisites

• Go 14.x+
• InfluxDB

To install go if it's not installed in your system follow below steps

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install build-essential jq -y

$ wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.15.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz
$ tar -xvf go1.15.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz
$ sudo mv go /usr/local

Update bashrc

$ export GOPATH=$HOME/go
$ export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
$ export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
$ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$GOBIN
$ echo "" >> ~/.bashrc
$ echo 'export GOPATH=$HOME/go' >> ~/.bashrc
$ echo 'export GOROOT=/usr/local/go' >> ~/.bashrc
$ echo 'export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
$ echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$GOBIN' >> ~/.bashrc

$ source ~/.bashrc

Install InfluxDB

$ wget https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb_1.8.3_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i influxdb_1.8.3_amd64.deb

Start influxDB

$ sudo systemctl start influxdb 

The default port that runs the InfluxDB HTTP service is 8086

Create an influxDB database:

$   cd $HOME
$   influx
>   CREATE DATABASE iris_bot  
$   exit

Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/Chainflow/irisnet-public.git
cd cirisnet-public
cp example.config.toml config.toml

Configure the following variables in config.toml

• tg_chat_id

  Telegram chat ID to receive Telegram alerts, required for Telegram alerting.

• tg_bot_token

  Telegram bot token, required for Telegram alerting. The bot should be added to the chat and should have send message permission.

• alert_time1 and alert_time2

  These are for regular status updates. To receive validator status daily (twice), configure these parameters in the form of "02:25PM". The time here refers to UTC time.

• val_operator_addr

  Operator address of your validator which will be used to get staking, delegation and distribution rewards.

• validator_hex_addr

  Validator hex address useful to know about last proposed block, missed blocks and voting power.

• lcd_endpoint

  Address of your lcd client (ex: http://localhost:1317).

• external_rpc

  External open RPC endpoint(secondary RPC other than your own validator). Useful to gather information like validator caught up, syncing and missed blocks etc.

• missed_blocks_threshold

  Configure the threshold to receive Missed Block Alerting, e.g. a value of 10 would alert you every time you've missed 10 consecutive blocks.

After populating config.toml

• Build and run the alerting bot using binary

$ go build -o iris-bot && ./iris-bot