Overlord

The monitoring application, composed from server Overlord and agent Overseer. It performs 3 types of checks:

• node availability through ping requests to the agent;
• node blockchain status;
• node version and protocol version status.

The application reports any inconsittencies to Slack.

Prerequisites

• Go
• Go modules - description
• Make

Getting started

With Go, Make and Go modules configured, clone the repository and change direcory to the neewe folder. Then execute make bootstrap to install all dependencies required

To compile project, use make command.

To run the application:

• build project
• copy overseer agent binaries to the machines running nodes and start them
• copy overlord.yaml.example to overlord.yaml
• edit overlord.yaml adding IP addresses of nodes and Slack credentials
• run the overlord server.

Contributing

Please, check out our Contribution guide and Code of Conduct.

License

Code released under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2017-2021 The Merit Foundation.