sui_config

Module validator_client_monitor_config

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Configuration for the Validator Client Monitor

The Validator Client Monitor tracks client-observed performance metrics for validators in the Sui network. It runs from the perspective of a fullnode and monitors:

  • Transaction submission latency
  • Effects retrieval latency
  • Health check response times
  • Success/failure rates

§Tuning Guide

§Monitoring Metrics

The following Prometheus metrics can help tune the configuration:

  • validator_client_observed_latency - Histogram of operation latencies per validator
  • validator_client_operation_success_total - Counter of successful operations
  • validator_client_operation_failure_total - Counter of failed operations
  • validator_client_observed_score - Current score for each validator (0-1)
  • validator_client_consecutive_failures - Current consecutive failure count
  • validator_client_selections_total - How often each validator is selected

§Configuration Parameters

§Health Check Settings

  • health_check_interval: How often to probe validator health

    • Default: 10s
    • Decrease for more responsive failure detection (higher overhead)
    • Increase to reduce network traffic
    • Monitor validator_client_operation_success_total{operation="health_check"} to see probe frequency

  • health_check_timeout: Maximum time to wait for health check response

    • Default: 2s
    • Should be less than health_check_interval
    • Set based on p99 of validator_client_observed_latency{operation="health_check"}

§Failure Handling

  • max_consecutive_failures: Failures before temporary exclusion

    • Default: 5
    • Lower values = faster exclusion of problematic validators
    • Higher values = more tolerance for transient issues
    • Monitor validator_client_consecutive_failures to see failure patterns

  • failure_cooldown: How long to exclude failed validators

    • Default: 30s
    • Should be several times the health_check_interval
    • Too short = thrashing between exclusion/inclusion
    • Too long = reduced validator pool during transient issues

§Score Weights

Scores combine reliability and latency metrics. Adjust weights based on priorities:

  • reliability: Weight for success rate (0-1)

    • Default: 0.6
    • Increase if consistency is critical
    • Decrease if latency is more important than occasional failures

  • latency: Weight for latency scores

    • Default: 0.4
    • Increase for latency-sensitive applications
    • Individual operation weights can be tuned separately

§Example Configurations

§Low Latency Priority

validator-client-monitor-config:
  health-check-interval: 5s
  health-check-timeout: 1s
  max-consecutive-failures: 3
  failure-cooldown: 20s
  score-weights:
    latency: 0.7
    reliability: 0.3
    effects-latency-weight: 0.6  # Effects queries are critical

§High Reliability Priority

validator-client-monitor-config:
  health-check-interval: 15s
  max-consecutive-failures: 10  # Very tolerant
  failure-cooldown: 60s
  score-weights:
    latency: 0.2
    reliability: 0.8

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