If you operate a website or APP, the server is located in Los Angeles, and users come from all over the world, you need to check whether the network nodes around the world can connect to the website and APP smoothly. Such paths span several continents, and networks often occur,Due to different network operators, regulatory policies or infrastructure in different countries, Some websites often have problems such as inaccessibility or high latency in certain specific areas. In order to detect similar problems in time and fix them in time, almost every website and APP needs a node monitoring service.
recently contactedPath NetworkIt is an enterprise-level node monitoring platform based on blockchain, which mainly provides network monitoring services. Monitoring here refers to real-time feedback on the status of network nodes to help website or application operators find problems in a timely manner. Paths investors include Bitmain, Crypto Capital, Coin Capital, etc.
Marshal Web, co-founder and CTO of Path Network, said that because enterprises or cloud computing vendors that provide services cannot monitor access paths outside their own nodes, enterprises often need to purchase node monitoring services to ensure the reliability of node monitoring.
andPingdom、ThousandEyesandStatuscake. They need to deploy their own monitoring infrastructure in various data centers in order to provide local monitoring services. Marshal Webb believes that the biggest problem for these companies is that the deployment of their nodes is often limited by geography and cannot cover all regions of the world;May not cover all carriers。
Path hopes to use the blockchain incentive mechanism to allow users around the world to become nodes, establish a node monitoring network covering as many regions and operators as possible, and provide users with reliability and performance monitoring of various types of online services .
According to Paths white paper, anyone with a computer or mobile phone can download Paths mining client, rent the bandwidth and computing resources of their equipment to Path, and choose the tasks they are willing to perform.
Users or businesses can post tasks through Paths client panel, and work can range from simple requests (such as making a single node verify that a service is online) to more complex tasks (such as hundreds of nodes around the world verifying the checkout process of a website) .
The Path network will distribute tasks to different nodes. Path’s mining nodes can run on computer browser plug-ins, mobile phones or Linux-based operating systems. When called, they will automatically run in the background. Forward the collected encrypted information to the Path database to obtain a specific PATH token.
In such a network, the number of miners and the geographical coverage affect the quality of service provision. Marshal said that currently Path has cooperated with APPs with millions of users, and related devices will also become Path nodes after user authorization, and Path services can run in the background. Coupled with the early promotion of the Path mining client, Marshal believes that it will be able to acquire a large number of users in a short period of time. Marshal revealed that Paths mining application will be launched within two weeks.
In terms of customers, Marshal said that LinkedIn, a large workplace social network, is in talks with him, and the latter expressed interest in trying Paths services.
Paths core service is website and network uptime and performance monitoring. In the future, it will also provide service availability monitoring, synthetic interaction testing, page speed monitoring, real-time alerts, DDoS attack reporting, path and routing visualization, CDN performance testing, BGP routing Supervision and other services.
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