Operator resources

Validator Tools

An operator toolkit for deploying, monitoring and recovering Solana validators. Start with a tool on SolStat or find the source code for a project you can run yourself.

01 / SOLSTAT

Use here

Available in this dashboard

NODERS / SolStat

Validator workspace

Find a validator by name or address, review current metrics and check published stake-pool criteria on Mainnet.

Validator lookup · Pool criteria

External projects are maintained by their respective teams and do not run inside SolStat. Review version-specific documentation before applying server settings or deploying a client.

02 / OPEN SOURCE

Deploy & configure

Bootstrap a node and keep its configuration reproducible.

Validators DAO

SLV

CLI and Ansible playbooks for deploying and operating validators, RPC nodes and Geyser services.

Node lifecycle

Pointgroup Labs

sv-manager

Community Ansible roles for validator setup, service management, upgrades and monitoring.

Ansible automation

sonicfromnewyoke · Reference

Solana RPC playbook

An operator's detailed RPC and Linux tuning notes. Review each setting for your client and hardware before reuse.

Configuration example

03 / OPEN SOURCE

Failover & maintenance

Plan handovers and recover when an active node disappears.

SOL Strategies

solana-validator-failover

Coordinates identity and tower transfer between active and standby validators during scheduled maintenance.

Planned handover

SOL Strategies

solana-validator-ha

Gossip-based high-availability manager for active and passive validator nodes, with health checks and incident recordings.

Automatic failover

04 / OPEN SOURCE

Monitor & diagnose

See voting, slots and host health before issues become outages.

Asymmetric Research

Solana Exporter

Prometheus metrics for votes, leader slots, rewards, balances and node health.

Validator metrics

Anza

Agave Watchtower

Checks RPC progress, blockhash availability and validator delinquency, with optional failure notifications.

Cluster health

Stakely

Solana TVC

Tracks a validator's TVC position and voting performance as the epoch advances.

Vote performance

stakeconomy

Solana Monitoring

Community scripts and dashboards for collecting validator and server metrics with Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana.

Monitoring stack

Prometheus

Node Exporter

Exposes CPU, memory, disk and network statistics from a Linux validator server.

Host metrics

Prometheus

Prometheus

Collects exporter metrics over time and evaluates alert rules.

Metrics & alerts

Grafana Labs

Grafana

Builds operational dashboards and alert views from Prometheus and other data sources.

Dashboards

05 / OPEN SOURCE

Validator clients

Source code and documentation for the software running the validator.

Anza

Agave

Solana validator client and command-line tools for accounts, votes and cluster operations.

Validator & CLI

Jito Foundation

Jito-Solana

Jito's open-source Solana validator client and its operator documentation.

Validator client

Jump Crypto

Firedancer

Independent Solana validator implementation; the same codebase also builds Frankendancer.

Validator client

06 / OPEN SOURCE

Shreds & data streaming

Infrastructure for low-latency shreds and RPC data feeds.

Jito Labs

ShredStream Proxy

Receives shreds from Jito's network and forwards them to configured destinations.

Shred delivery

Triton One

Yellowstone gRPC

Geyser plugin and clients for streaming Solana accounts, transactions, slots and blocks.

Geyser gRPC

Lamports Dev

Richat

Streaming server and tooling for Solana Geyser, Yellowstone gRPC and PubSub data.

Geyser fan-out

07 / OPEN SOURCE

Server recovery

Protect configuration and other small critical files.

restic

restic

Creates encrypted, verifiable backups and supports recovery to a separate machine.

Encrypted backups