Update #13
Lighter one on the checker’s own surface since #12 - a couple of small fixes - but the real news is what got built on top of it.
Two small checker fixes since #12
- The “latest version” indicator now shows in the Nymesis theme too. Light and dark had it in the header; Nymesis didn’t, so there was no at-a-glance “am I behind?” over there. Now there is.
- The Nymesis theme really stops dropping to the plain layout now. #12 said that was fixed - it wasn’t fully. It could still get stuck on the ordinary list after you’d visited Insights/Network or run a batch check. Found the actual cause and closed it; the explorer stays the explorer.
The big one: the checker grew a companion - Nymi
Nymi (@nyminodebot) is a Telegram bot that watches your nodes and pings you the moment something matters - a new release, your node updating, stake moving in or out, a mixnode’s stress test starting to slip, a node going offline. Almost all of it is powered straight by this checker’s data (version, performance/stress, saturation, stake, rewards) - so the numbers you’d normally open the checker to read now come to you.
There’s a /status command that hands you the vitals for each node in one message, and - if you also run the companion auto-updater - a /update button that force-updates a node on demand. It works even if the checker is the only thing you use: add a node and it’s watched.
Full writeup - what it does, how it works, the security, and three ways to get started:
One quiet hardening
The checker’s backend used to be reachable directly on its raw port too, sidestepping the front door. That’s closed now - it’s served only through the proper HTTPS domain. Nothing you’ll notice on the site; just safer under the hood.
Thanks
Same as always - operators poking at it and saying what felt off. The checker’s data doing the heavy lifting under Nymi is the whole reason it was worth building, and the Nym team’s APIs underneath make all of it possible. More checker-side features still coming.