# Node Monitoring Monitoring is inmensely important so to ensure the liveness and reliabilty of your infrastructure. If your validator is not signing blocks it will eventually get slashed losing you and your delegators some of their SCRT balance. Same for full nodes it is important they are able to serve queries as if they are down performance of dApps and other applications will be limited.\\ Monitoring is best done by a dedicated piece of software that provides both analytics and alerts. Some of those options are laid out below so to help you set them up. Consider relying on more than 1 monitoring solutions and leverage external RPCs so to secure your setup even further. #### Overview * Prometheus * Grafana * Docker * PagerDuty * Goaccess --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.scrt.network/secret-network-documentation/infrastructure/running-a-node-validator/maintaining-a-node-validator/node-monitoring.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.