Open Source the IC-API that powers the Internet Computer Dashboard

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Thanks @justmythoughts for continuing to push for this. I too find it very odd that the IC-API has not been open-sourced.

@Sat, am I correct in understanding that the Decentralisation tooling used by the DRE team (and also by those verifying subnet management proposals) depend on data from this closed source API?

@0x5279616e, @jeff, can I ask where should I submit bug reports?

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Yes, at the moment we check in the public dashboard api whether there is an alert for a node. However, this can be changed in the future by switching over to the trustworthy subnet metrics. We don’t have it implemented that way since trustworthy metrics are new.

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Thanks @Sat, I’ll take a closer look at the trustworthy metrics. Do you know if (similarly to the IC-API) there’s a trustworthy metrics endpoint for retrieving the location, current status, np and dc for a node? (providing this sort of info)

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The registry canister is the best source of this data. The DRE tool already pulls this data from the registry canister.

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BTW, the trustworthy (on-chain) metrics only have aggregated per-day per-node metrics, and expose only the metrics for complete days, no there is no metric for the current day since it’s not completed, there are only metrics for the last 60 days starting from yesterday. So far there wasn’t a need for the current-day metrics, but we can add that if there is need and value.

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