Braiins Farm Monitor
Braiins Farm Monitor is a solution for farms to monitor their mining operations and receive a detailed overview of key mining statistics. The user is informed through the Farm Dashboard about aggregated stats, combined with powerful visualizations, all of which can be broken down to the level of individual miners.
It is not sufficient to rely solely on the standard mining pool dashboards, which makes the Braiins Farm Monitor an essential tool for analyzing and reacting to all the different recorded variables.
To help mining farms, Braiins is providing to the mining world a free solution based on free open source software as well as self developed proprietary software. Braiins Farm Monitor encompasses three primary components:
- Metrics Exporter
- Prometheus
- Grafana
Metrics Exporter is a free closed-source system developed by Braiins. It performs device discovery on the defined network and pulls data from miners running a Stock FW. As a result, those data can be digested by Prometheus.
Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit. Prometheus collects and stores application metrics as time series data. Every metric is stored with its measured value at a timestamp at which it was recorded. Metrics can also contain so-called labels which are used to differentiate its characteristics.
Grafana is an open source visualization and analytics software. It allows users to query, visualize, alert on, and explore their metrics. It provides users with tools to turn the time-series database data into insightful graphs and visualizations.
The whole monitoring solution is self-hosted by the farm, therefore it is secure and fully controlled by the farm.
Features
- Device Discovery which effectively scans in a parallel defined network and selects miners for mining data collection.
- Data Storage performed by Prometheus where individual mining variables are stored as a time series in a near real time manner.
- Data Visualization of the stored data in Grafana. Farm Monitor comes with a "ready to go" dashboard called "Farm Dashboard". Since Grafana is modular visualization software the user can make his own dashboards according to his needs.
- Supported miners for data collection and visualization are miners running either Braiins OS (since version 22.02.2) or stock firmware (Antminer S19 and S17 family).
- The Farm Dashboard is interactive. Key graphs and statistics can be viewed in higher detail and the user can even smoothly redirect his focus to the individual miner GUI if needed.
- Enhanced monitoring and automated booting of Braiins OS on Antminers from the S19 family equipped with the Cvitek (CV1835) control board. This feature is particularly beneficial for miners that already have Braiins OS installed but are currently running on the stock firmware, especially after a reboot.
- Braiins Farm Monitor is completely free software.
Attention: The monitoring can be run either as a standalone application or it is already bundled in the Braiins Farm Proxy docker stack.