General Operations - c8ntinuum Docs

Use this page as the day-to-day operator checklist once a node is installed and syncing.

Routine checks

Check	What to verify
Sync status	Node height is near the network tip.
Peers	The node has enough healthy peers.
Logs	No repeated consensus, state sync, disk, or RPC errors.
Disk	Storage has enough free capacity for the selected pruning or archive mode.
RPC	HTTP and WebSocket services are reachable only where intended.
Alerts	Monitoring covers block lag, process restarts, disk, memory, and peer count.

Useful command shapes

The repository uses ctmd as the node binary. Confirm final flags and home paths for your environment.

ctmd status
ctmd start --home ~/.ctmd

For Linux installs managed by deploy.sh, prefer the service and lifecycle helpers:

sudo systemctl status ctmd.service
sudo journalctl -u ctmd.service -n 200
./deploy.sh status
sudo ./deploy.sh stop
sudo ./deploy.sh start

Monitoring endpoints

Component	Endpoint	Notes
CometBFT Prometheus	`http://127.0.0.1:26660/metrics`	Controlled by `[instrumentation]` in `config.toml`.
EVM JSON-RPC metrics	`http://127.0.0.1:6065/debug/metrics/prometheus`	Requires `[json-rpc].metrics-address` and starting `ctmd` with `--metrics`.

Keep metrics endpoints bound to localhost or a private interface and restrict access with a firewall. Run node_exporter alongside ctmd for host disk, CPU, memory, and network metrics.