Monitoring the best RPC Endpoints in Web3 with CompareNodes | OnFinality
CompareNodes gives OnFinality the confidence that our services are performing to the high standards we set for ourselves. Being able to independently reproduce, verify, and share test results in just 30 seconds has been invaluable to both our engineering and customer teams.
It’s no secret that OnFinality is a CompareNodes superuser.
Some days, a peek at our Inspector history might leave you wondering… are we their only user?
Have we been gently nudged for pushing (okay, bypassing) their usage limitations? Absolutely.
So when the awesome team at CompareNodes invited us to share how we use their platform, we took it as a green light to keep relying on them. Because when you’re building the fastest, most reliable Blockchain RPC endpoints in Web3, you need monitoring that can keep up.
About CompareNodes
CompareNodes provides independent and transparent RPC performance testing services for blockchain nodes and endpoints.
About OnFinality
OnFinality is a blockchain infrastructure platform that saves web3 builders time and makes their lives easier. OnFinality delivers scalable API endpoints for the biggest blockchain networks and empowers developers to automatically test, deploy, scale and monitor their own blockchain nodes in minutes
The Challenge
Serving over 1 billion requests every day across 125 blockchain networks means performance monitoring isn’t optional, it’s critical.
We were constantly ask ourselves:
“How can we be sure our services are lightning fast for users all over the world?”“Have we really fixed that elusive issue that only affects 1 in 10,000 requests?”
“Our status page is green, so why are some users in Asia still reporting problems?”
Our internal health checks are great at catching outages but they don’t always reflect real-world user experience. We needed a way to see what our users were seeing, from every corner of the globe.
Enter CompareNodes
CompareNodes provides a detailed breakdown of latency by region, flagging errors or rate limits, and shows an accurate, global perspective on performance, helping us detect and fix issues before they affect users.
CompareNodes quickly became a critical component of OnFinality’s performance monitoring stack.
- We run regular smoke tests across key networks to keep tabs on availability and response times.
- When something feels off, we dig in with targeted tests to quickly spot and resolve performance issues.
- The ability to share independent, third-party benchmarks has been especially useful in conversations with customers, backing up our claims with data.
It’s become a simple but powerful tool that helps us stay fast, reliable, and transparent.
The Results
“CompareNodes gives OnFinality the confidence that our services are performing to the high standards we set for ourselves.
Being able to independently reproduce, verify, and share test results in just 30 seconds has been invaluable to both our engineering and customer teams.”
- Daniel Vulinovich, COO @ OnFinality
Thanks to ongoing feedback from CompareNodes, we’ve been able to continuously fine-tune our RPC services.
Their insights have played a key role in reducing our global latency from 120ms down to under 40ms on critical networks like Ethereum.
About Compare Nodes
CompareNodes provides free global tools and freemium marketing services to remotely debug, measure and compare RPC endpoints from 27 locations on 6 continents
CompareNodes does not compete in RPC or data services and is an independent firm.
About OnFinality
OnFinality is a blockchain infrastructure platform that saves web3 builders time and makes their lives easier. OnFinality delivers scalable API endpoints, nodes, and indexers for the biggest blockchain networks and empowers developers to automatically test, deploy, scale and monitor their own blockchain nodes in minutes. To date, OnFinality has served hundreds of billions of RPC requests, supports over 125 networks including Avalanche, BNB Chain, Cosmos, Polkadot, Ethereum, and Polygon, and is continuously expanding these mission-critical services so developers can build the decentralised future, faster!