Gaining visibility in IPFS systems
May 16, 2022Pop Chunhapanya, Thibault Meunier
Summary
This post details the development and use of the IPFS Gateway monitor, an observability tool designed to measure the performance and reliability of IPFS gateways. It outlines the tool's architecture, including its measurement binaries and Prometheus exporter, and presents findings from various IPFS content retrieval scenarios (immutable content, IPNS names, DNSLink websites). The monitor helps inform design decisions for Cloudflare's IPFS gateway by providing insights into retrieval times, cache performance, and the impact of IPFS's distributed nature on content discovery.
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