Jim Farley, a member of the Thousand Validator Programme on Kusama, has written several articles on securing, monitoring, and maintaining Substrate Validators for Polkadot and Kusama. Here are some key articles:
- Securing Prometheus: Explains how to secure the connection between your Prometheus instance and Polkadot/Kusama validators.
- Global Monitoring Infrastructure: Describes setting up a global monitoring system for Polkadot and Kusama.
- Automated Backup: Details how to automate backups of Polkadot and Kusama chain databases to Azure Blob storage.
- Validator SIPOC: Provides a SIPOC (Supplier, Input, Process, Output, Customer) model for Polkadot and Kusama validators.