FAQ.md

⚠️⚠️ There are no incentives or rewards for running a Waku node. ⚠️⚠️ 🛑🛑 DO NOT RUN A NODE IF YOU ARE EXPECTING REWARDS 🛑🛑

Waku FAQ

• Does my node work properly?
• My node is not able to start properly
• Does the running node have any incentives?
• Error when running .register_rln.sh
• Problem with Grafana
• Migrate my setup to another server?

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Does my node work properly?

Your node should have at least 40 connected peers, and you should see some traffic in and out, in the Grafana board.

1. Run docker ps and check that the wakuorg/nwaku container is not continuously restarting
2. Use the following commands to check the node better:
   1. curl -X GET http://localhost:8645/health
   2. curl -X GET http://localhost:8645/debug/v1/info
   3. curl -X GET http://localhost:8645/debug/v1/version
   4. curl -X GET http://localhost:8645/admin/v1/peers
   5. curl -X GET http://localhost:8645/admin/v1/filter/subscriptions
   6. curl -X GET http://localhost:8003/metrics
3. Check the following local services:
   1. Grafana: http://localhost:3000/
   2. Local node front end: http://localhost:4000/

My node is not able to start properly

If you are using Contabo, we recommend moving to a different VPS vendor. If not, remove the keystore and rln_tree folders, run the ./register_rln script again, and try to run your node again.

Does running a node have any incentives?

There are currently no incentives in place, but it's something currently being researched and designed.

Error when running .register_rln.sh

ERR 2024-06-23 16:05:04.984+00:00 failure while initializing OnchainGroupManager topics="rln_keystore_generator" tid=1 file=rln_keystore_generator.nim:61 error="Failed to get the chain id: Forbidden"

There is a problem with you EthClient account. Take a closer look on how you set the values of the .env file paying attention to example, and make sure you have a valid EthClient.

Does my Grafana looks right?

It should look like: http://5.196.26.230:3000/d/yns_4vFVk/nwaku-monitoring?orgId=1&refresh=1m

How to migrate my setup to another server?

1. Clone nwaku-compose in the new server.

2. Move your keystore folder (nwaku-compose/keystore/) from your current setup to the new server.

   That folder was created when you executed ./register_rln.sh, and then, there is no need to run ./register_rln.sh again.