Your account balance should decrease by the transaction fee amount as your
validator submits votes, and increase after serving as the leader. Pass the
--lamports are to observe in finer detail:
There are several useful JSON-RPC endpoints for monitoring your validator on the
cluster, as well as the health of the cluster:
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# Similar to nexis-gossip, you should see your validator in the list of cluster nodescurl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1, "method":"getClusterNodes"}' http://api.devnet.nexis.network:8899# If your validator is properly voting, it should appear in the list of `current` vote accounts. If staked, `stake` should be > 0curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1, "method":"getVoteAccounts"}' http://api.devnet.nexis.network:8899# Returns the current leader schedulecurl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1, "method":"getLeaderSchedule"}' http://api.devnet.nexis.network:8899# Returns info about the current epoch. slotIndex should progress on subsequent calls.curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1, "method":"getEpochInfo"}' http://api.devnet.nexis.network:8899