Mention monitoring and updating for exchanges (#12953)
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## Node Setup
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We highly recommend setting up at least two of your own Solana api nodes to
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give you a trusted entrypoint to the network, allow you full control over how
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much data is retained, and ensure you do not miss any data if one node fails.
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We highly recommend setting up at least two nodes on high-grade computers/cloud
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instances, upgrading to newer versions promptly, and keeping an eye on service
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operations with a bundled monitoring tool.
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This setup enables you:
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- to have a trusted gateway to the Solana mainnet-beta cluster to get data and
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submit withdrawal transactions
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- to have full control over how much historical block data is retained
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- to maintain your service availability even if one node fails
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Solana nodes demand relatively high computing power to handle our fast blocks
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and high TPS. For specific requirements, please see
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[hardware recommendations](../running-validator/validator-reqs.md).
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To run an api node:
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@@ -43,12 +53,37 @@ Optional parameters to consider:
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- `--private-rpc` prevents your RPC port from being published for use by other nodes
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- `--rpc-bind-address` allows you to specify a different IP address to bind the RPC port
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### Automatic Restarts
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### Automatic Restarts and Monitoring
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We recommend configuring each of your nodes to restart automatically on exit, to
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ensure you miss as little data as possible. Running the solana software as a
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systemd service is one great option.
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For monitoring, we provide
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[`solana-watchtower`](https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/blob/master/watchtower/README.md),
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which can monitor your validator and detect with the `solana-validator` process
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is unhealthy. It can directly be configured to alert you via Slack, Telegram,
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Discord, or Twillio. For details, run `solana-watchtower --help`.
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```bash
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solana-watchtower --validator-identity <YOUR VALIDATOR IDENTITY>
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```
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#### New Software Release Announcements
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We release new software frequently (around 1 release / week).
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Sometimes newer versions include incompatible protocol changes, which
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necessitate timely software update to avoid errors in processing blocks.
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Our official release announcements for all kinds of releases (normal and
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security) are communicated via a discord channel called
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[`#mb-announcement`](https://discord.com/channels/428295358100013066/669406841830244375)
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(`mb` stands for `mainnet-beta`).
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Like staked validators, we expect any exchange-operated validators to be updated
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at your earliest convenience within a business day or two after a normal release
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announcement. For security-related releases, more urgent action may be needed.
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### Ledger Continuity
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By default, each of your nodes will boot from a snapshot provided by one of your
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@@ -32,6 +32,33 @@ Here are our recommendations for low, medium, and high end machine specification
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| Accounts Drive\(s\) | None | Samsung 970 Pro 1TB | 2x Samsung 970 Pro 1TB | |
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| GPU | Nvidia 1660ti | Nvidia 2080 Ti | 2x Nvidia 2080 Ti | Any number of cuda-capable GPUs are supported on Linux platforms. |
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## Virtual machines on Cloud Platforms
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While you can run a validator on a cloud computing platform, it may not
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be cost-efficient over the long term.
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However, it may be convenient to run non-voting api nodes on VM instances for
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your own internal usage. This use case includes exchanges and services built on
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Solana.
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In fact, the offical mainnet-beta API nodes are currently (Oct. 2020) run on GCE
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`n1-standard-32` (32 vCPUs, 120 GB memory) instances with 2048 GB SSD for
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operational convenience.
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For other cloud platforms, select instance types with similar specs.
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Also note that egress internet traffic usage may turn out to be high,
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especially for the case of running staked validators.
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## Docker
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Running validator for live clusters (including mainnet-beta) inside Docker is
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not recommended and generally not supported. This is due to concerns of general
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docker's containerzation overhead and resultant performance degradation unless
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specially configured.
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We use docker only for development purpose.
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## Software
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- We build and run on Ubuntu 18.04. Some users have had trouble when running on Ubuntu 16.04
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