Go-ethereum: Goerli Ethstats for Puppeth PoA

[zulhfreelancer]

I found this goerli/netstats-server project and I think it's best fit for PoA mode in Puppeth.

According to Afri here, this version of ethstats does not display stats relevant for PoW only, such as hashrate, difficulty, or uncles.

So, I'm putting this here. Hopefully we can have two different versions of ethstats; tailored to which consensus algorithm we choose.

[karalabe]

I'm a bit torn on this. The issue is that @5chdn did some awesome changes, many of which are relevant for the ethash version too. Now we have again a fragmented codebase, because if I include the Görli one into puppeth, it will behave slightly differently than the ethash one, not just the changes functionality (e.g. updated libraries). Would be nice to have a single thing being maintained and compatible with both, perhaps via some config switch.

A further complication is that https://aleth.io/ has been working on a brand new version of the stats server, so might as well be worth it to wait for that to arrive and get thm to make a generic one supporting both poa as well as pow.

[5chdn]

Now we have again a fragmented codebase

Not anymore! Having the fragmented codebase caused me so much headache, I started reimporting the old one again. I managed to make the same code-base support both dashboards, the PoA/Testnet version and the PoW/Mainnet version: https://github.com/goerli/ethstats-server

See readme for screenshots and details.

has been working on a brand new version of the stats server

I can't compete with a rewrite from scratch, but I am very much looking forward to it.

[5chdn]

• PoW Demo: https://ropsten-stats.parity.io/
• PoA Demo: https://kovan-stats.parity.io/

[5chdn]

Ok, I think I'm an "expert" on this now lol.

The goerli version of the ethstats servers come with a lot of security fixes but also with some heavy bugs introduced, unfortunately. So I would not advise to use this version unless someone has time to actually debug all the new issues.

The alethio netstats are only free in the "light" version which is not comparable to the status dashboard which is currently included in puppeth.

However, I recently discovered that POA Network has a complete rewrite available for the backend, coming with the same frontend:

• https://github.com/poanetwork/poa-netstats-warehouse
• https://github.com/poanetwork/poa-netstats-agent

I haven't tried that but might be worth investigating.

[karalabe]

Thanks for sharing these infos. @rjl493456442 was already working on integrating BlockScout into puppeth, so maybe we can tackle the stats server afterwards. That said, stats although rudimentary, seems to work well-ish, s it's not a high priority.

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[adamschmideg]

Seems to be no interest in this issue in a year now