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For KYVE Protocol Validators

This section includes all commands used by KYVE Protocol Validators to participate in state-sync data pools.

SERVE-SNAPSHOTS​

This command is essential for running as a protocol node in a state-sync pool since this will serve the snapshots to the protocol node. Basically, KSYNC will sync the blocks with block-sync and waits for the ABCI app to create the snapshots, once created they are exposed over a REST API server which the protocol node can then query.

To start with default settings serve the snapshots with:

ksync serve-snapshots --binary="/path/to/<binaryd>" --home="/path/to/.<home>" --snapshot-pool-id=<pool-id> --block-pool-id=<pool-id>

Once you see that KSYNC is syncing blocks you can open https://localhost:7878/list_snapshots. In the beginning it should return an empty array, but after the first snapshot height is reached (check the interval in the data pool settings) you should see a first snapshot object in the response.

Changing snapshot api server port​

You can change the snapshot api server port with the flag --snapshot-port=<port>

Enabling metrics server and manage port​

You can enable a metrics server running by default on http://localhost:8080/metrics by add the flag --metrics. Furthermore, can you change the port of the metrics server by adding the flag --metrics-port=<port>

Manage pruning​

By default, pruning is enabled. That means that all blocks, states and snapshots prior to the snapshot pool height are automatically, deleted, saving a lot of disk space. If you want to disable it add the flag --pruning=false