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Node Commands

The following sections explain various parameters required for different use-cases of the Astar node.

For more information, consult the embedded help page:

astar-collator --help

Collator​

Binary service file​

[Unit]
Description=Astar Collator

[Service]
User=astar
Group=astar

ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/astar-collator \
  --pruning archive \
  --collator \
  --name {COLLATOR_NAME} \
  --chain astar \
  --base-path /var/lib/astar \
  --trie-cache-size 0 \
  --telemetry-url 'wss://telemetry.polkadot.io/submit/ 0'

Restart=always
RestartSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Docker​

docker run -d \
--name astar-container \
-u $(id -u astar):$(id -g astar) \
-p 30333:30333 \
-v "/var/lib/astar/:/data" \
staketechnologies/astar-collator:latest \
astar-collator \
--pruning archive \
--collator \
--name {COLLATOR_NAME} \
--chain astar \
--base-path /data \
--trie-cache-size 0 \
--telemetry-url 'wss://telemetry.polkadot.io/submit/ 0'

Archive node as RPC endpoint​

Binary​

[Unit]
Description=Astar Archive node

[Service]
User=astar
Group=astar
  
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/astar-collator \
  --pruning archive \
  --rpc-cors all \
  --name {NODE_NAME} \
  --chain astar \
  --base-path /var/lib/astar \
  --rpc-external \
  --rpc-methods Safe \
  --rpc-max-request-size 1 \
  --rpc-max-response-size 1 \
  --telemetry-url 'wss://telemetry.polkadot.io/submit/ 0'
  
Restart=always
RestartSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Docker​

docker run -d \
--name astar-container \
-u $(id -u astar):$(id -g astar) \
-p 30333:30333 \
-p 9944:9944 \
-v "/var/lib/astar/:/data" \
staketechnologies/astar-collator:latest \
astar-collator \
--pruning archive \
--rpc-cors all \
--name {NODE_NAME} \
--chain astar \
--base-path /data \
--rpc-external \
--rpc-methods Safe \
--rpc-max-request-size 1 \
--rpc-max-response-size 1 \
--telemetry-url 'wss://telemetry.polkadot.io/submit/ 0'

Specific cases command args​

EVM management​

Enable EVM methods on the RPC node:

--enable-evm-rpc

Enable EVM debug log:

--ethapi=debug

Enable EVM tracing log:

--ethapi=txpool,debug,trace
--wasm-runtime-overrides /var/lib/astar/wasm

External monitoring​

--prometheus-external

Full command documentation​

To see the full node (binary) embedded documentation, please use the help option.

$ ./astar-collator -h
note

The node process launches with Parachain ID 2006 for Astar, 2007 for Shiden, 1000 for Shibuya.

Parachain ID info for each network can be found here.