Using nview to Monitor Your Dingo Nodes

nview is a local monitoring tool for a Cardano Node meant to complement remote monitoring tools by providing a local view of a running node from the command line. It is a TUI (terminal user interface) designed to fit most screens.

Simply download the nview binary file from blinklabs.io on to your node server. Then run nview in the server command line. It’s that simple to use and you will get monitoring right out of the box!

To get started, follow the steps below.

Step 1 - Download the nview binary from Blink Labs

Copy the download URL from the Blink Labs GitHub releases page and run the following command on your node server.

⚠️ Adjust the download URL to match the version and architecture you want to download.

💡 Tip: You can download the latest nview release from the https://github.com/blinklabs-io/nview/releases page.

cd ~/dingo
wget -O - https://github.com/blinklabs-io/nview/releases/download/v0.15.0/nview-v0.15.0-linux-amd64 > nview

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Step 2 - Change Permissions

For this example, we named the binary file nview and saved the file to our ~/dingo directory.

To make the binary executable, run:

⚠️ Adjust the file path and file name if needed.

chmod +x ~/dingo/nview

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Step 3 - Run nview

Run nview

⚠️ For this example, the nview binary is located in the ~/dingo directory.

cd ~/dingo
./nview

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Congratulations! You are now ready to monitor your Dingo node using nview.

Running nview against a Dingo Node works out of the box with the default node configuration. However, if you need to make changes, you can run nview with a configuration file.

Want to customize the nview configuration? See our guide on using an nview configuration file.