[Bug] Initia full node reports healthy and synced status but provides no verifiable proof of active network participation

[maslitti]

Actual behavior

Currently:

• the node process runs normally
• health checks report OK
• logs show no critical or fatal errors

However:

• no metrics expose active network participation
• no API endpoint confirms whether the node is being counted by the network
• logs do not confirm successful participation events
• operators cannot distinguish an actively participating node from an inactive or uncounted one

As a result, the node may appear healthy while not being verifiably active or recognized by the network.

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Impact

Without observable participation signals:

• operators cannot confirm correct configuration
• incentive or snapshot eligibility cannot be independently verified
• inactive or misconfigured nodes may go unnoticed
• reward programs become non-transparent for operators

This makes it impossible to reliably distinguish between:

• a correctly functioning node
• a misconfigured, inactive, or uncounted node

while both appear identical from a health and monitoring perspective.

[beer-1]

Hey @maslitti, you can check the node participation in various way

RPC is exposed normally :26657 port

• http://rpc.testnet.initia.xyz/abci_info : height checking
• http://rpc.testnet.initia.xyz/net_info : checking peers connected

or do you have specific metrics you want to get? you can also enable prometheus in ~/.initia/config/config.toml

#######################################################
###       Instrumentation Configuration Options     ###
#######################################################
[instrumentation]

# When true, Prometheus metrics are served under /metrics on
# PrometheusListenAddr.
# Check out the documentation for the list of available metrics.
prometheus = false

# Address to listen for Prometheus collector(s) connections
prometheus_listen_addr = ":26660"