Hello developers! If there is a possibility to ask the asset canister ({“type”: “assets”} in dfx.json) for it’s cycles balance programmatically? I would like to monitor cycles balance in Prometheus. Currently all my Motoko canisters has a public query method to return cycles using ExperimentalCyc…

For any canister you can add the blackhole canister as an additional controller and then anyone can query the cycle balance through that canister. In fact, that should be considered best practice for anyone who don’t mind the public to see this data. And then pages like ic.rocks (pinging @wang ) can…

Is there any experience on this topic? How we can monitor an asset canister without dfx command e.g. dfx wallet --network ic balance --precise

You need to make a call to the canister_status on the management canister with a caller that is listed as a controller of the respective canister. Here @peterparker shared a snippet of how to do it using agent-js: How to make IC Management API canister_status call with @dfinity/agent?

I even build my self an open source monitoring dapp that supports NNS and SNS canisters :point_right: https://cycles.watch/

Thank you very much, these are great examples. I will study it and try to build a nodejs script to fetch the balance.

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I’m sorry I need more help on this topic. In your example, see link2, your actor is calling the method canister_status. const response = await actor.canister_status({ canister_id: Principal.fromText(canisterId) }) In my example I receive the following error: myAgent.canister_status is not a …

Hey @rbole , you need to call the canister_status method of the “management canister” .

It’s because in Papyrs I implement the canister status on the backend side while in Cycles.watch it’s on the frontend side :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: If you want to do it on the backend side, and then expose it through a custom actor function, you can use canister_status basically summarized …

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If you are interested in automatically topping up your canisters, this is a really helpful tool

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