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Getting Started

  • Welcome to Core Lightning Documentation Portal
  • Set up your node
    • Installation
    • Configuring your node
  • Upgrade
  • Advanced setup
    • Reproducible builds
    • Using Tor
    • Bitcoin Core

Beginner's Guide

  • Running your node
  • Opening channels
  • Sending and receiving payments
  • Securing keys
  • Backup your wallet
    • HSM Secret
    • Advanced DB Backup
  • Wallet recovery
  • Watchtowers

Node Operator's Guide

  • Analytics
  • Plugins
  • Troubleshooting & FAQ

Developer's Guide

  • Setting up a dev environment
  • App Development
    • JSON-RPC commands
    • REST APIs
    • gRPC APIs
    • Third-party libraries
    • commando
    • WSS Proxy
  • Plugin Development
    • A day in the life of a plugin
    • JSON-RPC passthrough
    • Event notifications
    • Hooks
    • Bitcoin backend
    • Plugin manager
    • Tutorials
  • Tracing CLN Performance
  • Recipes
  • API Reference

Contribute to CLN

  • CLN Architecture
  • Coding Style Guidelines
    • Writing JSON Schemas
  • Contributor Workflow
  • Release Checklist
  • Docker Images
  • Testing
  • Code Generation
  • Security policy

Analytics

Analyse your node data for effective node management.

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Using SQL plugin

Since version 23.02, Core Lightning ships with a powerful SQL plugin that allows you to query your node and analyse data for channel / liquidity management, accounting and audit.

See lightning-sql for a full primer on its usage.

Using third-party software

There are a handful of third-party GUI tools that provide analytics on the top of your node, apart from helping you manage your node:

  • Ride-the-Lightning
  • Umbrel
  • bolt.observer
  • LN Node Insights
  • Munin

Updated over 1 year ago


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    • Using SQL plugin
    • Using third-party software

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For general discussions about CLN implementation, use c-lightning@lists.ozlabs.org. For the Lightning Network, use lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org

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