Detailed Plan
## What is Blockfrost.io?
Blockfrost.io is an instant, public and freely accessible API that removes infrastructure obstacles for developers so that everyone can start building (d)apps on Cardano. With Blockfrost.io, developers can start doing what they love ❤️, without the need for running and maintaining additional infrastructure and tooling themselves.
At the moment, we have more than 2,500 developers already onboarded in Blockfrost!
## What is Prometheus?
Prometheus is a software component used for event monitoring and alerting. It is used to monitor metrics from other software components. SPOs are using it to monitor their own nodes and relays.
## Deliverables and roadmap
We would like to build a Prometheus exporter that will provide metrics about the Cardano blockchain from the 3rd party, which is Blockfrost. It will enable SPOs and node operators to have a pulse on the Cardano chain and can react if they find about a discrepancy on their own infrastructure.
We will release the first version of this software within 6 weeks after funding, including documentation and tests.
## Relevant experience
Five Binaries is an infrastructure development company. We're Cardano pioneers - with the first Cardano block minted on an aeroplane, first stake pool on the ITN and the first Shelley transaction on the mainnet.
We are the creators of Blockfrost.io. We are participants in Alonzo since the Blue testnet and we are Plutus pioneers.
With 24 proposals already funded across several funds in the past, we are trusted by the community. To find out more about our progress on making the Cardano infrastructure better, check out our Catalyst dashboard page at https://catalyst.fivebinaries.com/.
We are trusted by customers such as Emurgo, Trezor or Cardano Foundation. To get in touch or find more information about us, please visit https://fivebinaries.com/.
## Budget
We estimate this project will take about 3 weeks of active development and about 2 weeks of maintenance for the duration of the year.
## License
The entire outcome of this project will be open sourced under Apache License 2.0.
