Dear Council members,
This tip is for Jim Farley from CertHum member of the Thousand Validator Programme on Kusama.  He has created amazing articles for securing, monitoring, and maintenance of Substrate Validators (Polkadot and Kusama, parachains). 

**Securing Prometheus between your Prometheus Instance and your Polkadot / Kusama Validators**
[https://medium.com/certhum/securing-prometheus-between-your-prometheus-instance-and-your-polkadot-kusama-validators-9044fc21c2a4](https://medium.com/certhum/securing-prometheus-between-your-prometheus-instance-and-your-polkadot-kusama-validators-9044fc21c2a4)

**Global Monitoring Infrastructure for Polkadot and Kusama**
[https://medium.com/certhum/global-monitoring-infrastructure-for-polkadot-and-kusama-ccd06a05ee9b](https://medium.com/certhum/global-monitoring-infrastructure-for-polkadot-and-kusama-ccd06a05ee9b)

**Automated Backup of Polkadot and Kusama Chain Database to Azure Blob**
[https://medium.com/certhum/automated-backup-of-polkadot-and-kusama-chain-database-to-azure-blob-fb3bfedb3320](https://medium.com/certhum/automated-backup-of-polkadot-and-kusama-chain-database-to-azure-blob-fb3bfedb3320)

**Polkadot and Kusama Validator SIPOC**
[https://medium.com/certhum/polkadot-and-kusama-validator-sipoc-a2cef4647229](https://medium.com/certhum/polkadot-and-kusama-validator-sipoc-a2cef4647229)


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

For articles about securing, monitoring and maintenance of Polkadot and Kusama Validators.