Starting the Nodes
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Start your stake pool with systemctl and begin syncing the blockchain!
Congratulations! Your nodes are running successfully. Synchronizing your local copies of the Cardano blockchain ledger with the network may take 24 hours, or more. As of April 2025, the size of the Cardano blockchain ledger is approximately 200 GB. Optionally, to restore and bootstrap a full node rapidly set up a
To monitor your Cardano nodes, install gLiveView.
To modify env with the updated file locations, type the following command where <ConfigFileName>
is config-bp.json
on your block-producing node and config.json
on all your relay nodes
A node must synchronize to epoch 208 (Shelley launch) before gLiveView.sh can start tracking the synchronization process. Before your node synchronizes to epoch 208, you can track node synchronization using the following command:
Run gLiveView to monitor the progress of the local Cardano Node synchronizing with the blockchain.
The following figure illustrates sample output of the gLiveView dashboard when Cardano Node is operating as a relay.