Scenario
Round-trip latencies for chained requests eth_getBlockByNumber(latest, false) and eth_getLogs(hash) with start-to-start throttling of (at least) 1100 ms for every request.
Also, block number consistency with block availability and block age. The block propagation comparison is conservative and latency-agnostic.
Of the possible 31 regions, 30 were selected for data collection: Oregon, N. California, Mexico, Columbus, OH, N. Virginia, Montreal, São Paulo, Ireland, Zaragoza, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Zurich, Milan, Stockholm, Cape Town, Tel Aviv, Dubai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangkok, Singapore, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul, Osaka, Tokyo, Melbourne, and Sydney.
Each location probe breaks its processing loop if / when the endpoint response is too-many-requests, a.k.a. HTTP code 429 etc. Also, codes 401 and 403.
At the time of the report generation: 60 of 60 datasets were available from 30 selected regions x 2 endpoints.
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Findings
| Endpoint | Lagging | Unique | Lowest | Arrival Tms | Arrival Region | Highest | Arrival Tms | Arrival Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. mainnet.ethereum.ValidationCloud.io | 0 | 4 | 25,196,065 | 1,779,998,052,591 | Mumbai / AWS | 25,196,068 | 1,779,998,076,839 | Ireland / AWS |
| B. svc.Blockdaemon.com | 332 | 4 | 25,196,065 | 1,779,998,052,611 | Ireland / AWS | 25,196,068 | 1,779,998,077,392 | Zaragoza / AWS |
We detected 332 responses whose sendTms, arrivalTms and number were such that we can state the endpoint was lagging in the respective region.
E.g. on arrivalTms=1,779,998,054,960 in Bangkok / AWS, we received number 25,196,066 from A. mainnet.ethereum.ValidationCloud.io. Afterwards, on sendTms=1,779,998,057,058 we dispatched a request to B. svc.Blockdaemon.com, which returned lower number 25,196,065 at arrivalTms=1,779,998,057,207. Therefore, B. svc.Blockdaemon.com was lagging because it was returning lower number 25,196,065 well after A. mainnet.ethereum.ValidationCloud.io advanced to 25,196,066.
Summary
Global and continental aggregations by endpoint and method(s) depend on completeness of data in the details.
Details
Latencies exclude one warmup request per endpoint in each region. Additional columns are visible when you scroll to the right.