
nostr.watch
Relay monitoring service and NIP-66 implementation stack, reporting which relays are reachable.
How it started
Launched
· The author states in the NIP-66 pull request that nostr.watch had been monitoring relays "since around November" 2022. The repository was created 2022-11-24 and the site was captured by the Wayback Machine on 2022-12-19. · Source (opens in a new tab)
Why it was built
README: "nostr.watch aggregates data on nostr relays and the network in general to assist users, developers and relay operators." It began as a fork of fiatjaf/nostr-relay-registry and became a rewrite. · Source (opens in a new tab)
Milestones
OpenSats Nostr grant to rebuild the monitoring infrastructure · Source (opens in a new tab)
NIP-66 Relay Discovery and Liveness Monitoring, authored by sandwich, merged into the NIPs repository · Source (opens in a new tab)
Eight NIP-66 monitoring stations across six continents publishing relay health data · Source (opens in a new tab)
Release history
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Repository facts collected .
Status evidence
Checked 2026-10-04: the repository is not archived and its most recent public push was 2026-08-01. No published GitHub release was found; repository activity is the only development evidence recorded here. Active describes observed development, not availability, stability or security. The project website answered with HTTP 200 at this check. No founder, maintainer or creator is attributed: person-level role evidence was not verified for this record.
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People
Founder: not verified.