It has been a long while since ProbeLab was last active on this forum with latest metrics and notable results. Our crawlers and tools, however, did not stop monitoring the IPFS network. With this post, we’d like to give a brief update on the new metrics we’ve added to our dashboards at: https://probelab.io/ipfs/ and make a commitment to the community that we’ll be giving a bi-weekly update on the most interesting developments on IPFS.
So, here’s what’s changed recently.
Website & Dashboard Appearance
We’ve launched a new website to showcase our results in more detail. Here are some highlights on the website’s new features:
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The metrics presented are better grouped under the protocol they represent.
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The data presented can stretch back in time giving a nicer long-term evolution view of the results.
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The tooltip gives a lot more information than previously, with detailed percentage numbers.
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Where possible, there are drop-down menus to choose the desired client implementation, percentile, or geographic location and get more detailed information.
Kubo Performance
We now have a dedicated section on the performance of Kubo, including a first of its kind plot on end-to-end performance, i.e., from Provide/Publish on the publisher side, to TTFB on the client side. Here’s a snapshot. You can find the most up-to-date plot at: https://probelab.io/ipfs/kubo/#chart-kubo-e2e-performance-ts
Bitswap Results
We’ve built new tooling to get deeper understanding of the performance and operation of the Bitswap protocol. While doing that, we’ve managed to collect “never seen before” information regarding some IPFS network particulars. These include:
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The number of daily unique CIDs seen at the Amino DHT: https://probelab.io/ipfs/bitswap/#chart-ipfs-bitswap-unique-cids-ts.
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The number of Bitswap WANT CID Requests: https://probelab.io/ipfs/bitswap/#chart-ipfs-sniffer-cid-requets-ts.
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The most active peers in the network together with the number of requests.
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The most popular CIDs, ranked by the number of unique peers requesting them.
IPNI Status
Using parsec, our DHT and IPNI lookup performance measurement tool, we now monitor and present the uptime and performance of the cid.contact indexer. The results are grouped by the status of the indexer at the time of request. The up-to-date plot can be found here: https://probelab.io/ipfs/ipni/cid.contact/#chart-ipni-uptime-bar.
We will soon be updating and adding new metrics for IPFS Gateways. Stay tuned and as always, feedback is more than welcome in this thread, directly to @dennis-tra who has carried out most of these updates, or at the team’s contact email (check: https://probelab.io/).