Is there an easy way to identify if a particular node is vetted or not? Is this something I can query through the API or deduct otherwise?
At the moment I’m seeing ~5GB per day ingress on each node, two of them being just under a month old and one being relatively new (one week). I understood that vetting will affect the amount of ingress data being sent to my nodes, but I also want to know if I can monitor vetted status next to the audit status so I can integrate it into my monitoring.
When you run the script without period, you will see for each satellite the vetting progress, x audits from 100, and if it just shows OK, then that sat has finished the vetting. Each sat does it’s own vetting.
$ python earnings.py /storj/storage
January 2023 (Version: 12.3.1) [snapshot: 2023-01-31 15:14:33Z]
TYPE PRICE DISK BANDWIDTH PAYOUT
Upload Ingress -not paid- 139.03 GB
Upload Repair Ingress -not paid- 8.65 GB
Download Egress $ 20.00 / TB 45.88 GB $ 0.92
Download Repair Egress $ 10.00 / TB 55.87 MB $ 0.00
Download Audit Egress $ 10.00 / TB 32.66 KB $ 0.00
Disk Current Storage -not paid- 102.48 GB
Disk Average So Far Storage -not paid- 29.95 GB
Disk Usage Month Storage $ 1.50 / TBm 53.34 GBm $ 0.08
________________________________________________________________________________________________+
Total 53.34 GBm 193.62 GB $ 1.00
Estimated total by end of month 29.95 GBm 195.92 GB $ 0.97
Payout and held amount by satellite:
┌────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────┬─────────────────┬────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SATELLITE │ NODE AGE │ HELD AMOUNT │ REPUTATION │ PAYOUT THIS MONTH │
│ │ Joined Month │ Perc Total │ Disq Susp Down │ Earned Held Payout │
├────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ap1.storj.io:7777 (27% Vetting progress > 10 / 100 Audits) │ │ │
│ │ 2023-01-01 1 │ 75% $ 0.00 │ 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% │ $ 0.0385 $ 0.0289 $ 0.0096 │
├────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ eu1.storj.io:7777 (37% Vetting progress > 19 / 100 Audits) │ │ │
│ │ 2023-01-01 1 │ 75% $ 0.00 │ 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% │ $ 0.1683 $ 0.1262 $ 0.0421 │
├────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ europe-north-1.tardigrade.io:7777 (24% Vetting progress > 8 / 100 Audits) │ │
│ │ 2023-01-01 1 │ 75% $ 0.00 │ 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% │ $ 0.0013 $ 0.0010 $ 0.0003 │
├────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ saltlake.tardigrade.io:7777 (20% Vetting progress > 6 / 100 Audits) │ │ │
│ │ 2023-01-01 1 │ 75% $ 0.00 │ 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% │ $ 0.0017 $ 0.0013 $ 0.0004 │
├────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ us1.storj.io:7777 (44% Vetting progress > 26 / 100 Audits) │ │ │
│ │ 2023-01-01 1 │ 75% $ 0.00 │ 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% │ $ 0.7882 $ 0.5912 $ 0.1971 │
├────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ us2.storj.io:7777 (27% Vetting progress > 10 / 100 Audits) │ │ │
│ │ 2023-01-01 1 │ 75% $ 0.00 │ 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% │ $ 0.0003 $ 0.0002 $ 0.0001 │
├────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤ +
│ TOTAL │ │ $ 0.00 │ │ $ 0.9982 $ 0.7487 $ 0.2496 │
└────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────┴─────────────────┴────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘
[friedkiwi@cbrstg01 documents]$
This is what I’m currently getting, and exactly the sort of information I’m looking for.
Is the vetting progress accurate/is this supposed to be this low after a month?
Progress % indicates the timewise progress of this non-linear process (you get very few audits early on when your node has very little data). It’s usually quite accurate, however audits have been switched off for a while while they were implementing a new system. So it is normal right now that you’re seeing low numbers and unfortunately the progress % can’t take such anomalies into account. As far as I know, audits have resumed now. So you should see more progress again.
Thanks - that was actually my next question 
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Is it safe to leave the status API (:14002) exposed to the public internet?
It’s not recommended. Here are docs to access the dashboard remotely securely: How to remote access the web dashboard - Storj Node Operator Docs
I agree, if you want to do that run a proxy infront of it and use letsencrypt SSL certificate.
The easiest way is to run NginxProxyManager https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager
I use Hestiacp (web control panel) and host my own websites/email server, I use a subdomain and proxy manager (link above) with SSL to access my dashboard through the internet, I also have a IPS (intruder prevention system) that comes with most high end routers as part of my security on my local network.