drift-keeper/README.md

Drift Keeper Bot

Keeper Bots in the Drift Protocol keep the protocol operational by performing automated actions as autonomous off-chain agents. Keepers are rewarded depending on the duties that they perform.

This repository contains tools to build, run and monitor Keeper bots for Drift on Solana.

More information:

• https://github.com/drift-labs/keeper-bots-v2/
• https://docs.drift.trade/keeper-bots
• https://docs.drift.trade/tutorial-order-matching-bot

Prerequisites

• Docker, Docker-Compose
• Solana RPC Endpoint
• Solana Private Key for signing transactions
• Jito Private Key for auth to block engine API (optional)

Drift account is setup according to: https://docs.drift.trade/keeper-bots.
The account can also be set up using the trading app: https://app.drift.trade/.

Setup

Create .env file from example and configure all environment variables.

cp example.env .env

Build

Clone the keeper-bots repository and build the Docker image.

./ctl.sh image build

Run

Run the bot.

docker compose up

Metrics

The bot exposes Prometheus metrics that are automatically scraped.
A Grafana dashboard is exposed on http://localhost:3000 with default username/password: grafana/admin.