Dear Council, 

I am proposing this tip to Blockpane a fellow One Thousand Validator (1KV) participant.  He has developed a tool that retrieves data from the One Thousand Validator backend and translates it into an end point for the popular server monitoring software Prometheus.  Data in Prometheus can be translated into alerts or points for trending within accompanying software like Grafana.

The source code for the project can be found here: https://github.com/blockpane/1kv-exporter 

Community benefit:  

As part of the 1KV programme, validators are upheld to additional performance standards when compared to regular node operators.  Should any of these standards be infringed the validator would be deemed as 'invalid' and be exempt from w3f nomination.  Some of these metrics are found on-chain and some relate to connectivity to the w3f telemetry all of which are not natively accessible to local monitoring software like Prometheus.  

This solution provides node operators with a better opportunity to monitor these (additional) metrics and take action where discrepancies are noticed. 

https://twitter.com/ruitao_su/status/1208305894083022848

For the development of a tool to export data from the 1KV backed to Prometheus