Consensys / PluginsAPIDemo

Demo plugin for the Besu Plugins API

Besu Plugins API Demo Plugin

Purpose of the Demo Plugin

Expose finer grain details about the gas usage in blocks via Prometheus

Services Used

• PicoCLIOptions
  • To add configuration options to change the name of the metrics
• MetricCategoryRegistry and MetricsSystem
  • To add the metrics to the metrics endpoint
• BesuEvents
  • To listen to propagated blocks and capture relevant data

Plugin Lifecycle

• Register
  • Add the configuration options and metrics category
• Start
  • Connect to the Besu events
• Stop
  • Disconnect from the Besu events

To Execute the Demo

Build the plugin jar

./gradlew build

Install the plugin into $BESU_HOME

mkdir $BESU_HOME/plugins
cp build/libs/*.jar $BESU_HOME/plugins

Run the Besu node w/o customized metric names

$BESU_HOME/bin/besu --config-file=demo-options.toml

Then go to http://localhost:9545/metrics to see the metrics

To change the names of the metrics use the plugin CLI options

$BESU_HOME/bin/besu --config-file=demo-options.toml \
  --plugin-gas-spending-metrics-name=a_name 
  --plugin-gas-spending-metrics-prefix=a_prefix_