Validator Commands

help check the help file add help behind any validator command to get help on that command or subcommand (ie solana validators help ) cli solana help cli agave validator help gossip check the machines connected to the cluster cli solana gossip validators check the current and delinquent validators, stake and software version cli solana validators this will sort by highest skip rate cli solana validators sort skip rate reverse delinquent validators show only delinquent validators by grep for the ⚠️ symbol cli solana validators | grep p '\x{26a0}' cli solana validators | grep ⚠️ logs follow the log file (it moves fast, can be combined with options such as pipe to grep) cli tail f validator log cli tail f validator log | grep "search terms" exit to properly shut down a validator use exit command to check for upcoming leader slots note with our cluster size, we will almost always be missing leader slots by shutting down so we need to bypass this check with min idle time check cluster for delinquent stake take local snapshot stop your validator cli agave validator ledger /ledger exit max delinquent stake 10 min idle time 0 monitor note if you have a system service set up on the machine, then you also need to stop the service or it will auto restart! cli sudo systemctl stop validator service cli sudo systemctl status validator service get config cli solana config get