KanoPool Monitor - hashrates, workers, rewards and notifications for KanPool

[ZACHM]

Update: For those new here, KanoPool used to be called CKPool hence the website address for the monitor. I have edited the title of this thread and some of the mentioning of CKPool to KanoPool. Hopefully this will clear up some confusion.

KanoPool Monitor

This is a website/application to monitor your mining on Kano KanoPool.
If you are not using Kano KanoPool then switch now!  

KanoPool Monitor has the following features:

- Total Pool Hashrate graphing
- Block finds and average time between blocks on graph
- Your hashrate graphed
- Your individual workers hashrate graphed
- Overall hashrate Reduced notification
- Dropped Worker notification
- Individual Worker reduced hashrate notification
- Rewards tracking (Not automatic yet - see below)

Here are some screenshots (click for larger):



Here is the procedure to register and start tracking:

Step 1 - Mine at Kano KanoPool! (Preferably with a username)

Step 2 - Go to https://ckpoolmonitor.zachmonroe.com and click Register


Step 3 - Fill in your email address and choose a password (Not the one you use on KanoPool!)


Step 4 - Log in!


Step 5 - Get your API Key from Kano KanoPool at https://kano.is



Step 6 - Go to Account Settings


Step 7 - Come back to KanoPool Monitor and fill in your information at a minimum your Kano KanoPool Username and APIkey, then click save.
Your individual worker settings will not be available until you have your username and api key saved and it have been running for about 10 minutes.



Many people like to recieve the notification via text message, if you would like to do that here is a list of email to text for cell phone carriers: http://www.emailtextmessages.com/
Just set it as your secondary email address in the settings and have the notifications sent to that address.

Rewards tracking information is not available through the Kano KanoPool API.
You need to manually enter the data from the rewards page on https://kano.is(Block, Your N Avg (just the numbers), Your BTC) for each block found, don't worry about when you do it, the system tracks the price of BTC when the block is found (all the way back to the first block found at Kano KanoPool)

If you have a lot of past rewards you would like to enter you can have me import them for you:
1. Log into Kano.is and go to your rewards page
2. Select all of the rewards that you have not yet entered
3. Copy into Excel (or similar) and save as a *.csv file
4. email the file to me and I will import it for you.

Eventually I plan on making this more automatic, but for now this will work.


This is a constant work in progress, some things on the To-Do List:
- Bulk Import of Rewards
- Export of Rewards info to a CSV file
- More rewards tracking info
- Clean up the site
- add more options for how the information is displayed
- Option to let the site know you are receiving notification via text and make those smaller (The ones now are a lot of characters)
- Users have option between local time and UTC (Pool Time) on the graphs, etc.
- Update the images on this post to match what the site looks like now.
- Give me ideas!

If you have any problems, questions or suggestions let me know.

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[AriesIV10]

Love It.  This really helps me coming over to CKPool from the Great Dashboard of Slush's and even the information provided on Bitminter!

Thanks Zack for doing this!

[clgrissom3]

Thanks Zach!  You have done a great job of supporting the Kano CKPool with your effort!

[coffeeangst]

Any chance this service could be https?  Don't like passwords and API keys floating around in the clear.

[ZACHM]

Love It.  This really helps me coming over to CKPool from the Great Dashboard of Slush's and even the information provided on Bitminter!

Thanks Zack for doing this!

Thanks Zach!  You have done a great job of supporting the Kano CKPool with your effort!

Thanks, let me know if you have any issues.

Any chance this service could be https?  Don't like passwords and API keys floating around in the clear.

I am working on this. Will most likely be a self-signed certificate.

But for now:
I suggest you use a password that is not used anywhere else.
The API on CKPool is only for getting the data, none of your information can be changed.
If you ever felt you wanted to remove the api key you can go to Kano.is and request a new api key, the old one will be deactivated.

I know a lot of people are worried about security of things, but none of this information can be used for anything malicious (At least not that I know of).

[Moria843]

Thanks Zach. It's great to have everything in one place.

[Ares~]

Great work Zach!

[bctmke]

This is an awesome "app" if you will.

The email notifications are spot on.  Definitely jump on this bandwagon if you're mining at Kano's pool (and if not, why aren't you?)

[ZACHM]

Any chance this service could be https?  Don't like passwords and API keys floating around in the clear.

All setup and secure with https!

https://ckpoolmonitor.zachmonroe.com/
Cost me about $50 usd a year, but should make people feel a little better.

[aurel57]

Very nice! Thanks!

[clgrissom3]

I have a question about dropped worker in settings...I have all of my miners set to 1 notification and I'm still getting 3 for the test miner I shut down every night.  Am I supposed to have the old Dropped Worker Notification in the top section checked when I use the Individual Worker Settings in the bottom section?

[bctmke]

Any chance this service could be https?  Don't like passwords and API keys floating around in the clear.

All setup and secure with https!

https://ckpoolmonitor.zachmonroe.com/
Cost me about $50 usd a year, but should make people feel a little better.

Awesome - great add, thanks!

[ZACHM]

I have a question about dropped worker in settings...I have all of my miners set to 1 notification and I'm still getting 3 for the test miner I shut down every night.  Am I supposed to have the old Dropped Worker Notification in the top section checked when I use the Individual Worker Settings in the bottom section?

To clarify:
Are you shutting down the miner every night?
Or are you get 3 notifications each night but the miner has been shutdown the whole time?

The Low Hash Rate Notification and Dropped Worker Notification in the upper section are independent of the Individual Worker Settings. The upper Low Hash Rate is for total hashrate, the dropped workers is for your worker not submitting a share within the last 5 minutes. Individual Worker Settings are for each worker hashrate dropping below a set threshold. Obviously if you turn the worker off it's hashrate is 0 and therefore below the threshold and it will trigger the notification.

I'll check on the number of notifications code, maybe I have to tweak it a little.

[clgrissom3]

I have a question about dropped worker in settings...I have all of my miners set to 1 notification and I'm still getting 3 for the test miner I shut down every night.  Am I supposed to have the old Dropped Worker Notification in the top section checked when I use the Individual Worker Settings in the bottom section?

To clarify:
Are you shutting down the miner every night?
Or are you get 3 notifications each night but the miner has been shutdown the whole time?

The Low Hash Rate Notification and Dropped Worker Notification in the upper section are independent of the Individual Worker Settings. The upper Low Hash Rate is for total hashrate, the dropped workers is for your worker not submitting a share within the last 5 minutes. Individual Worker Settings are for each worker hashrate dropping below a set threshold. Obviously if you turn the worker off it's hashrate is 0 and therefore below the threshold and it will trigger the notification.

I'll check on the number of notifications code, maybe I have to tweak it a little.

Yes, I have a small miner that I shut down every night...5 minutes later I start getting notifications for a total of 3 as I expected.  I have been playing with the settings to see if I can find a way to just ignore this one miner.

It does not have enough hash to make a difference in the pool for me and it has to be rebooted about every 4 hours anyway.  I use it to test settings and new Kano sites mostly since I would not want to take any of my S7s offline for testing purposes.

[ZACHM]

If you just uncheck the boxes under the emails for that worker and the Dropped Worker notification is unchecked in the upper section. You should not get notifications for that worker.

[clgrissom3]

I tried that and it did stop the notification for that one worker...but I think it stopped the notifications for all of my other miners as well once I unchecked the upper box.

[ZACHM]

Yes and No. It would stop the "Dropped Worker Notification", but if your workers "drop" their hashrate would go to 0 and you would get a notification for low hashrate for that worker, which I think would be sufficient for you to check it out. I suggest having notifications set to at least 2, that way if you get one you are aware that there might be a problem, if the hashrate picks back up you won't get the second. If you get the second then you know there is a problem.

[clgrissom3]

I've set it that way again to see what happens.  I can shut down my test miner for that part of the test and I'll watch for an event to happen for the others.  I'll let you know what I find...thanks Zach!

EDIT:  Haha!  The first thing I have to do is realize what units I'm working with.  When I set everything to 2 it was 2TH/s and all the S5s in my collection which runs standard at 1.155TH/s starting popping with low hash rate warnings!  Had to fix that quickly...

[aurel57]

It working like a champ! Got notice of the last block and now low hash rate on one of my miners. thanks again

[ZACHM]

EDIT:  Haha!  The first thing I have to do is realize what units I'm working with.  When I set everything to 2 it was 2TH/s and all the S5s in my collection which runs standard at 1.155TH/s starting popping with low hash rate warnings!  Had to fix that quickly...

Yeah, that helps. I figured TH/s is the easiest to use, but maybe I should make it optional.

I have the low rate set at 0.75 for my S5's