Self-Hosted Crypto Infrastructure Monitoring: Docker Healthcheck + Service Recovery

Description and use

Automated monitoring and recovery for a self-hosted crypto wallet WAIaaS using Docker healthcheck, restart policy, auto-provision, and Docker Secrets ensures continuous operation and quick response to failures.

Problem

Self-hosted crypto infrastructure must stay online and recover quickly without external support, especially when key custody and transaction privacy are critical.

Outcome

Automated monitoring and recovery keep a self-hosted crypto wallet online, protect key custody, and provide instant alerts for failures or incoming funds.

Workflow

• Deploy WAIaaS with docker-compose.yml (default settings)
• Enable Docker restart: unless-stopped and named volume for persistence
• Run auto-provision to generate recovery.key and master password
• Use waiaas CLI to init, start, quickset, and set-master for secure credentials
• Set up Docker Secrets overlay for production passwords
• Configure health endpoint monitoring (curl /health) in uptime tool
• Stream logs with docker compose logs -f and adjust log level via WAIAAS_DAEMON_LOG_LEVEL
• Set up notification alerts for incoming transactions via waiaas notification setup

Evidence

WAIaaS ships as a self-contained Docker image with healthchecks, secret management, and a recovery model baked in.

Source

Docker will automatically restart the container after crashes or host reboots. The exception is if you explicitly stop it with docker compose down.

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The auto-provision mode generates a random master password and writes it to /data/recovery.key inside the container.

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