Queen Elizabeth II received a blockchain journal in the post, and was “interested to learn that the publication is the first open access blockchain research journal available both in print and online, according to a letter from her office. In a letter to the British Blockchain Association, which sent the journal, a member of her office said the queen “much appreciated thoughtful gesture,” as first reported by the Financial Times.

This is the the last of a 2-part blog post series regarding Netdata and Geth. If you missed the first, be sure to check it out here. Geth is short for Go-Ethereum and is the official implementation of the Ethereum Client in Go. Currently it’s one of the most widely used implementations and a core piece of infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem. With this proof of concept I wanted to showcase how easy it really is to gather data from any Prometheus endpoint and visualize them in Netdata.

Rapid digitalization of the world and wide access to the Internet cause an immense growth of online participants in all areas of business and life. In contrast to this, keeping track of all the interactions became significantly harder. This is one of the reasons to implement the blockchain approach in order to keep data safe and fresh, while maintaining a record of its history. The regular systems are not transparent, difficult to scale, and introduce a high risk of error.

Microsoft recently reported two widespread cryptomining attacks targeting Kubeflow, a popular cloud-native platform for machine learning (ML) workloads on Kubernetes. Attackers targeted Kubeflow installations using either the Kubeflow central dashboard interface or Kubeflow Pipelines interface for scheduling crypto-mining workloads.

Regardless of how technically sound the engineering of an app is, bugs, errors, and crashes can happen. So when they do, you must recover from it by doing a deep analysis of the technical aspects and the impact on the overall customer experience. If your crypto-exchange or banking app is not getting the right insights you need from the crashes, your churn rate and your customers will definitely let you know sooner than you think.

Crypto trading and exchange apps have surged in recent years as a direct consequence of the exponential growth in the number and market capitalization of cryptocurrencies. With ever-growing press coverage and heightened visibility, the crypto ecosystem gets more and more crowded every second. This constant influx of players has clearly been beneficial, as the assets traded continue to grow.

The way we ‘data’ is about to change, and Splunk’s Connect for Ethereum (aka EthLogger) is helping organizations to adapt. Splunk Connect for Ethereum enables organizations of all sizes to investigate, monitor, analyze and act upon their rapidly growing blockchain data sets across multiple chains.

All the work presented in this blog post is open source and available as part of our Splunk Connect for Ethereum repository examples, including the instrumentation of Besu as a Docker container, the configuration of Splunk, and two applications showing how to monitor Besu syncing to the chain.