Akash analytics grant proposal

[aqt01]

Abstract

Nodefleet is a Web3 blockchain and node running company focused on delivering value for investors/builders on the Pocket Network ecosystem providing top quality engineering and quality infrastructure around all of its products.

We are the third largest node provider on pocket.network with all of our pocket network domains combined we process around 117-150m requests per day served with around 23 different blockchains nodes across 3 regions; Southeast Asia, North America and Central Europe. The last 30 days we've had a total of 3.6 billion requests processed (attached in the links section).

With our experience on infrastructure development and open source space, we would love to collaborate with AKASH by developing the requested analytics and real time dashboard based on the sig-analytics prd. This developed with a user centered design, additionally with real-time, monitoring, health and performance statistics on the infrastructure and servers to be built.

By delivering this analytics dashboard, we also are going to empower the community and the akash team with an open source solution and a public API, that will unlock more opportunities for research and insights across the entire network.

References:
https://nodefleet.org/
https://twitter.com/nodefleet/

Domains controlled by nodefleet:
https://www.poktscan.com/node_runner?domain=nodefleet.org
https://www.poktscan.com/node_runner?domain=blackholestake.io
https://www.poktscan.com/node_runner?domain=whiteholestake.io
https://www.poktscan.com/node_runner?domain=lightspeedstake.io

Proposed Solutions

In order to fulfill this proposal, we are going to be building an analytics dashboard that will meet the following based on the requirements mentioned in the sig-analytics prd which are summarized below:

Network and provider usage

Total deployments over time
Total $AKT on deployments over time
Leases created over time
Leases created at given time
Contributors on our OSS repositories over time

Provider network state & Network growth metrics

Active providers in the network overtime
Active total providers (active/inactive) spun up overtime
Compute/memory/storage capacity added overtime
Average up time for the providers on the network
Average time of funds withdrawal out of escrow
Providers by type of resources (IP, Storage, type of memory…)

User activation & Retention metrics

Total new users in specific period of time
Total users that started a deploy but never completed
Total users with successful deployment at first time
Average number of deployment weekly/monthly (w/ tiers)
Percentage breakdown of clients used by users to deploy
Wallets connected to akash deployments as result of marketing campaign
Times a special feature was requested by tenants deploying on the provider
Average size of resource requested (memory/cpu/storage/etc)
Types of workloads running on the providers

The first step that we are going to take as a team is to start a user centered design process with our UI/UX team to build the UI wireframes and test sessions with key final users to design our dashboard based on real user validation to fulfill the expectations of the project and deliver real value to the community.

We are going to rely on all of our software libraries and components by using open source alternatives for the indexing/database/ and for the analytics dashboard itself in order to be reproducible/ customizable and at the same time being efficient and scalable for the solution.

We’ll be working also by making public the API backend of the analytics dashboard in order to meet the requirements mentioned in the proposal to open the access of this data for the community and for akash team so they can have the option to do more in-depth research with the data available.

Additional maintenance metrics will be created in a separated grafana dashboard for monitoring in real time the health of the analytics dashboard, AKT node and traffic of the public API access to the indexed data for maintenance and status reporting.

Link to the prd: https://github.com/akash-network/community/blob/main/sig-analytics/prd.md

Funding Request & Timeline

In order to implement sig-analytics prd analytics dashboard and provide code and infrastructure maintenance for the platform we request 55k in AKT for the development and 4k AKT in USD monthly upfront after the 4 months of development for the cost and maintenance of the system, dashboard analytics, public API access, open source code updates and engineer support.

Development timeline (4 months)

UI/UX designs in order to validate frontend design and features as expected - Jun
Backend implementation and indexing tooling - Jun/Jul
Development of dashboards and charts with new stats and features -Jul
Addition of GPU stats and implementation of sig-analytics prd - Jul/Aug
Documentation and open source all software components - Aug
Implementation of real time monitoring and alarms dashboard for infrastructure server health / status - Aug/Sept

Maintenance

Maintenance includes the following details:

Server and maintenance costs
Database server and automated backups
Indexing tool
Backend / API public access
Analytics dashboard
SLA / dedicated discord channel for engineer support
Real-time monitoring / status / alarms via dedicated discord channel
Open Source code maintenance with up-to-date documentation and software updates

Deliverables:

Below are listed the deliverables items after the development phase is completed:

UI/UX Figma blueprints
Open Source github repositories:
Database / Indexing tool repository
API backend
Frontend analytics dashboard’

Software components

Frontend analytics dashboard
Public API access
Production ready infrastructure (Akash node, indexing tool, Database)

Conclusion

We understand that the data properly visualized on an efficient user-centered analytics platform plays an important role in the strategic planning and decision making for the future of the Akash Network. By funding this proposal our team will be able to address the lack of visibility and indexing limitations on the network providing a open source solution with a user-centered frontend and efficient engineering for the akash community