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title: 'Proposal: Monitoring, Logs & Management Documentation for Akash Providers'

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# Proposal: Monitoring, Logs & Management Documentation for Akash Providers

## Overview
This proposal aims to enhance the existing Akash documentation by focusing on key monitoring, logging, and management tasks for Akash providers. Clear, actionable documentation will empower providers to effectively monitor their systems, manage leases, track earnings, and troubleshoot issues. These improvements will help ensure that providers can maintain optimal performance and troubleshoot any issues quickly.

## Tasks

### 1. Provider Logs
- **Objective**: Provide documentation on setting up and managing centralized logging solutions for Akash providers.
- **Benefit**: Enables providers to capture and manage logs efficiently, simplifying issue detection, troubleshooting, and system monitoring.

### 2. Provider Status and General Info
- **Objective**: Expand documentation on how to check and interpret the provider’s status and general infrastructure information using the Akash CLI and dashboards.
- **Benefit**: Helps providers stay informed about the health of their infrastructure and identify potential issues before they become critical.

### 3. Provider Lease Management
- **Objective**: Enhance the documentation for managing provider leases, including tracking, updating, and terminating leases based on the current usage.
- **Benefit**: Provides a clear guide for managing leases efficiently, helping providers optimize their resource usage and avoid unnecessary costs.

### 4. Provider Manifests
- **Objective**: Improve documentation on managing and updating provider manifests, with detailed examples and common troubleshooting scenarios.
- **Benefit**: Ensures that providers understand how to properly handle manifests, reducing the chances of deployment issues and improving the overall deployment workflow.

### 5. Provider Earnings
- **Objective**: Document the process of tracking and reporting provider earnings, including tools and methods for calculating profitability.
- **Benefit**: Helps providers understand their financial performance, making it easier to optimize their business strategy and ensure that operations are sustainable.

## Estimated Effort

- **Total Time**: 8 hours  
- **Rate**: $40/hour  
- **Total Budget**: $320

## Conclusion
By expanding and refining the documentation on monitoring, logs, and management tasks, Akash can empower its provider community to better manage their infrastructure, track system performance, and address issues efficiently. This will
