Open infrastructure tooling for Monad validators, operators and ecosystem visibility
Hi Monad community,
While operating on Monad testnet, from Cumulo we have been building a set of infrastructure tools focused on a few practical needs we see emerging across the ecosystem: validator visibility, endpoint reliability, network monitoring and easier access to operational data.
Validators, node operators, developers and ecosystem teams all benefit from having clear ways to inspect network behavior, compare endpoint quality, monitor validator participation and understand how the network is performing in real time.
Why this matters
For validators and node operators, this means having better visibility into consensus participation, block production, uptime, execution metrics and RPC behavior.
For developers, it means being able to evaluate public RPC and WSS endpoints more easily before relying on them for applications, bots, indexers or integrations.
For the wider ecosystem, it means making validator activity, staking data, network health and infrastructure reliability easier to observe and understand.
The goal of these tools is to help make that data more accessible, comparable and useful.
Monad Services Hub
The Monad Services Hub brings together several infrastructure resources in one place:
- A live network dashboard with block height, average block time, TPS, gas price, active validators and total staked MON.
- Node setup and monitoring documentation.
- A custom Grafana dashboard for Monad infrastructure.
- RPC and WSS endpoint scanner.
- Validator resources index.
- Public activity tracker for infrastructure operations.
The idea is to provide a practical entry point for validators, node operators and ecosystem participants looking for infrastructure-related data and references.
Monitoring and Grafana dashboard
We built a custom Grafana dashboard for Monad infrastructure from scratch.
It covers key operational areas such as:
- Consensus and block production.
- Execution layer metrics.
- RPC request duration.
- Node and service health.
- Metrics collected through OTEL Collector and exposed in Prometheus format.
This helps operators monitor critical subsystems in a structured way and makes it easier to identify performance issues, RPC degradation or node-level problems.
The dashboard configuration and metrics reference are available on GitHub so other operators can review, reuse or adapt the setup.
RPC and WSS endpoint scanner
Public endpoints are an important part of the developer and infrastructure experience.
RPC and WSS endpoints are used by applications, wallets, explorers, bots, indexers and monitoring tools. However, endpoint quality can vary depending on provider, location, sync status and availability.
To make this easier to inspect, we built an endpoint scanner that indexes public RPC and WSS endpoints across the Monad ecosystem, including validators and third-party providers.
Each endpoint is tested from three geographic regions:
- EU
- US
- CA
The scanner tracks:
- Latency.
- Block sync.
- Uptime percentage.
- Live status.
- EVM availability.
- WSS availability.
This allows endpoint reliability to be compared across providers and regions using the same testing methodology.
Open source methodology:
Monad Block Explorer
We also built a Monad block explorer from scratch, sourcing data directly from the Monad staking precompile and public RPC.
The explorer focuses on validator, staking, performance and network health data.
Monad Block Explorer
The explorer focuses on validator, staking, performance and network health data, sourced directly from the Monad staking precompile and public RPC.
It includes:
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Chain Stats: staking metrics such as total bonded MON, active vs registered validators, Nakamoto coefficient, validator concentration and commission distribution.
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Chain Health: live BFT committee monitoring, including voting power, active/inactive members and real-time block time status.
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Chain Performance: block producer rankings over configurable scan windows, with activity charts per validator.
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Validators: validator-level data such as stake, consensus stake, commission, active/eligible status and consensus vs execution set membership.
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Uptime: proposer rotation analytics across configurable block windows, with participation rate per validator and documented data source.
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Node Map: geographic validator distribution through a 2D map and interactive 3D globe, including datacenter and ISP details where available.
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Blocks and Search: live block feed with transaction count, gas used, timestamp and proposer address, plus direct lookup for validators, blocks and addresses.
Activity Tracker
Infrastructure work is often invisible unless it is documented.
For that reason, we maintain a public activity tracker where Monad-related operations are logged, including:
- Node deployments.
- Upgrades.
- Version changes.
- Incidents.
- Operational updates.
This creates a public operational history that can be useful for validator accountability, internal tracking and ecosystem visibility.
Feedback
These tools are still evolving, and feedback from validators, node operators, developers and the Monad team would be very useful.
Resources:
Monad Services Hub:
Monad Block Explorer:
Monad Testnet resources:
GitHub: