It's perfect for this. You know exactly what's running on the hosts and you can scale it up easily by running the same (or similar) configuration on a different host. 

See https://github.com/0xb10c/peer-observer-infra-demo and https://github.com/0xb10c/peer-observer-infra-library

Interesting that NixOS was used for this.

jbschirtzinger

0xB10C

I’ve written about my peer-observer project in peer-observer: A tool and infrastructure for monitoring the Bitcoin P2P network for attacks and anomalies and post about it here for me to share project updates, enable discussion about the project, and for readers to leave ideas further monitoring ideas.

bitcoin

> I’ve written about my peer-observer project in peer-observer: A tool and infrastructure for monitoring the Bitcoin P2P network for attacks and anomalies and post about it here for me to share project updates, enable discussion about the project, and for readers to leave ideas further monitoring ideas.
>
> **[...read more at delvingbitcoin.org](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/peer-observer-a-tool-and-infrastructure-for-monitoring-the-bitcoin-p2p-network-for-attacks-and-anomalies/1988)**