what is the goal of this project and how it differs from gnoscan?

[moul]

It's a genuine question: why do we need to spend time on this tool today? What makes Gnoscan not the best option to improve before developing a competitor? I believe this should be outlined in a README.

[zivkovicmilos]

@moul

The goal of this project is to provide an easy "glance" UI for a Gno node cluster, something that's currently not possible with Gnoscan (you'd need to run X gnoscan instances for X nodes, and would still not get the data that this tool aggregates).

It's meant to be used for local cluster development, but also remote cluster management -- you can easily spin up a cluster and a gnostats agent that feeds into a public dashboard, similar to a public Grafana dashboard

Check this Ethereum instance to get the idea of what the tool does

[moul]

Thanks, I have a few questions:

• Did you ask @gnolang/onbloc team if they would consider improving Gnoscan? It may be in their interest to have the best tool in the space.
• How urgent is our need for this now rather than later? I might not fully understand, but I feel we don't need it immediately. Could you provide more insight on who will use it and how?
• How essential is it for us to have this as an official tool rather than as a community-driven package from Gnoverse? It seems like a nice-to-have tool that we could expect the community to develop, possibly with a bounty.