Solana Foundation Releases Microscope: Self-Hosted Monitoring for Programs and Treasuries
The Solana Foundation has open-sourced Microscope: a self-hosted monitoring stack that decodes program instructions, normalizes Squads multisig activity, and triggers alerts — without the Foundation seeing any data.
What Happened
The Solana Foundation has released Microscope as open source: a self-hosted monitoring stack for on-chain programs and treasuries. The stack ingests data via gRPC stream or JSON-RPC, decodes program instructions and events, and presents them through common dashboard and log tools (Prometheus, Loki, Grafana). Alerts connect to Slack, Telegram, or PagerDuty.
One detail stands out for DAO and team treasuries: Microscope normalizes Squads multisig activity (v3, v4, and v5) — anyone running a Squads treasury gets proposals, approvals, and executions as evaluable signals.
Why Self-Hosted Is the Point
The architecture decision is part of the news: the Foundation hosts nothing and sees no deployment data — the entire stack runs in your own infrastructure. Teams that previously had to choose between flying blind and paid SaaS monitoring services get a third option without data outflow.
The flip side comes with it: self-hosting means running it yourself — updates, secrets, and availability sit with the team. And a failed instruction decode is a signal, not proof of an exploit; the assessment remains manual work.
What to Watch
- How quickly the repo gains program decoders beyond the bundled ones
- Whether Microscope establishes itself as a standard building block in treasury setups
Sources
- Solana Foundation — Microscope on GitHub
- SOLANA·HUB knowledge: Solana Wallet Security