Nimbus: Dashboard challenge winners

This is a rather late announcement regarding our dashboard challenge, which came to a close at the beginning of March. We’re pleased to announce we received two excellent submissions from contributors Joe Clapis and metanull. They have claimed their POAPs and will share the $5k prize money between them.

Here’s a brief overview of their respective submissions.

Joe Clapis

Joe – who’s done some brilliant work integrating Nimbus with Rocket Pool – has created a wonderful guide where he takes you through how to set up a Grafana server on your Pi – using his dashboard as an example (his dashboard is the one featured at the top of this post).

In his words:

This captures just about every metric I think I’d like to see at a glance.

Be sure to check out his guide here: https://github.com/jclapis/rp-pi-guide/blob/main/Grafana.md

Metanull

Metanull chose to submit an adaptation of a dashboard he originally wrote for Prysm, aimed primarily at users rather than developers.

He’s also provided a detailed guide explaining how to use it.

Note that this dashboard does rely heavily on three prometheus exporter tools: node_exporter for system metrics, json_exporter for ETH price, and blackbox_exporter for ping times.

The good news is that you don't need to use all these tools, as long as you take care of removing the related panels.

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We can’t thank you enough for the time and effort you put into this 🙏 We’ll be adding both of your dashboards to the Grafana section of the  Nimbus Book shortly.

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P.S. For those of you using Docker, you'll be pleased to hear that our next release will have metrics support compiled by default – which means you'll finally be able to use Grafana with Nimbus :) We hope to get this release out either tomorrow or Friday.