zbx-bitcoin

Template and script for Zabbix to monitor Bitcoin Core or Knots node.

Dependencies

• bc
• bitcoin-cli
• jq
• zabbix_sender

Setup

• Import zbx_export_templates.yaml into Zabbix;
• Make zbx-bitcoin-status.sh run on a machine continuously, either using SystemD or cron job (it has a locking mechanism, you can just launch it each minute from cron).

Items

• Cumulative sizes of mempool transactions per various fee rate groups (Bitcoin Knots only)
• Current number of headers validated
• Estimated size of the block and undo files on disk
• Estimate of blockchain verification progress
• Fee estimations for various block targets
• Height of the most-work fully-validated chain
• Maximum memory usage for the mempool
• Mempool size
• Minimum relay fee for transactions
• Node connection count
• Node incoming connection count
• Node outgoing connection count
• Number of active RPC commands
• Protocol version
• Server subversion string
• Server version
• Total memory usage for the mempool
• TX count in mempool

Triggers

• Protocol version has changed
• Server subversion string has changed
• Server version has changed
• Validated blockchain tip hasn't changed for 3 hours

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