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## Issue
Implement a new subcommand: tendermint debug. This subcommand itself has two subcommands:
$ tendermint debug kill <pid> </path/to/out.zip> --home=</path/to/app.d>
Writes debug info into a compressed archive. The archive will contain the following:
├── config.toml
├── consensus_state.json
├── net_info.json
├── stacktrace.out
├── status.json
└── wal
The Tendermint process will be killed.
$ tendermint debug dump </path/to/out> --home=</path/to/app.d>
This command will perform similar to kill except it only polls the node and dumps debugging data every frequency seconds to a compressed archive under a given destination directory. Each archive will contain:
├── consensus_state.json
├── goroutine.out
├── heap.out
├── net_info.json
├── status.json
└── wal
Note:
goroutine.out and heap.out will only be written if a profile address is provided and is operational.
This command is blocking and will log any error.
replaces: #3327
closes: #3249
## Commits:
* Implement debug tool command stubs
* Implement net getters and zip logic
* Update zip dir API and add home flag
* Add simple godocs for kill aux functions
* Move IO util to new file and implement copy WAL func
* Implement copy config function
* Implement killProc
* Remove debug fmt
* Validate output file input
* Direct STDERR to file
* Godoc updates
* Sleep prior to killing tail proc
* Minor cleanup of godocs
* Move debug command and add make target
* Rename command handler function
* Add example to command long descr
* Move current implementation to cmd/tendermint/commands/debug
* Update kill cmd long description
* Implement dump command
* Add pending log entry
* Add gosec nolint
* Add error check for Mkdir
* Add os.IsNotExist(err)
* Add to debugging section in running-in-prod doc
Tendermint
Byzantine-Fault Tolerant State Machines. Or Blockchain, for short.
| Branch | Tests | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| master |  |
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Tendermint Core is Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) middleware that takes a state transition machine - written in any programming language - and securely replicates it on many machines.
For protocol details, see the specification.
For detailed analysis of the consensus protocol, including safety and liveness proofs, see our recent paper, "The latest gossip on BFT consensus".
Releases
NOTE: The master branch is now an active development branch (starting with v0.32). Please, do not depend on it and
use releases instead.
Tendermint is being used in production in both private and public environments, most notably the blockchains of the Cosmos Network. However, we are still making breaking changes to the protocol and the APIs and have not yet released v1.0. See below for more details about versioning.
In any case, if you intend to run Tendermint in production, please contact us and join the chat.
Security
To report a security vulnerability, see our bug bounty program
For examples of the kinds of bugs we're looking for, see SECURITY.md
Minimum requirements
| Requirement | Notes |
|---|---|
| Go version | Go1.13 or higher |
Documentation
Complete documentation can be found on the website.
Install
See the install instructions
Quick Start
- Single node
- Local cluster using docker-compose
- Remote cluster using terraform and ansible
- Join the Cosmos testnet
Contributing
Please abide by the Code of Conduct in all interactions, and the contributing guidelines when submitting code.
Join the larger community on the forum and the chat.
To learn more about the structure of the software, watch the Developer Sessions and read some Architectural Decision Records.
Learn more by reading the code and comparing it to the specification.
Versioning
Semantic Versioning
Tendermint uses Semantic Versioning to determine when and how the version changes. According to SemVer, anything in the public API can change at any time before version 1.0.0
To provide some stability to Tendermint users in these 0.X.X days, the MINOR version is used to signal breaking changes across a subset of the total public API. This subset includes all interfaces exposed to other processes (cli, rpc, p2p, etc.), but does not include the in-process Go APIs.
That said, breaking changes in the following packages will be documented in the CHANGELOG even if they don't lead to MINOR version bumps:
- crypto
- types
- rpc/client
- config
- node
- libs
- bech32
- common
- db
- errors
- log
Exported objects in these packages that are not covered by the versioning scheme
are explicitly marked by // UNSTABLE in their go doc comment and may change at any
time without notice. Functions, types, and values in any other package may also change at any time.
Upgrades
In an effort to avoid accumulating technical debt prior to 1.0.0, we do not guarantee that breaking changes (ie. bumps in the MINOR version) will work with existing tendermint blockchains. In these cases you will have to start a new blockchain, or write something custom to get the old data into the new chain.
However, any bump in the PATCH version should be compatible with existing histories (if not please open an issue).
For more information on upgrading, see UPGRADING.md
Resources
Tendermint Core
For details about the blockchain data structures and the p2p protocols, see the Tendermint specification.
For details on using the software, see the documentation which is also hosted at: https://docs.tendermint.com/master/
Tools
Benchmarking and monitoring is provided by tm-load-test and tm-monitor, respectively.
The code for tm-monitor can be found here and the code for tm-load-test can be found here these binaries need to be built seperately.
Additional documentation is found here.
Sub-projects
- Amino, reflection-based proto3, with interfaces
- IAVL, Merkleized IAVL+ Tree implementation
- Tm-cmn, Commonly used libs across Tendermint & Cosmos repos
Applications
- Cosmos SDK; a cryptocurrency application framework
- Ethermint; Ethereum on Tendermint
- Many more
Research
- The latest gossip on BFT consensus
- Master's Thesis on Tendermint
- Original Whitepaper
- You can find the link at the bottom of the readme
- Blog