Add human-friendly admin console

[sergey-melnychuk]

Things I'd like to have on such theoretical "status page":

• sync status
  • blocks synced
  • blocks to sync (if any)

Extra:

• memory footprint
• disk footprint
• db stats
• p2p stats

[Mirko-von-Leipzig]

Yes, agreed.

If you've already self-assigned -- does this mean you have a plan in mind already? Would be good to do a rough design proposal and just get consensus / by-in before proceeding with code.

[sergey-melnychuk]

@Mirko-von-Leipzig , I was thinking a simple /status endpoint returning JSON (or text to dump into console), and a simple HTML page that polls the endpoint and renders the data in a nice way.

[Mirko-von-Leipzig]

JSON makes sense; and that could be the start of a simple web-ui for pathfinder. I'm more concerned about how the data will be aquired. Does it read from the database where possible? Probably doesn't answer most questions. How do p2p, RPC, sync stats get fed in? Events via channels?

[sergey-melnychuk]

To start with, simple /status endpoint should do.