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- #Lightning Network#lnd#Aperture
Aperture #286: L402 Metrics Before and After
Adding per-outcome Prometheus counters to Lightning Labs' Aperture proxy for L402 minting and verification, and what changes for an operator watching the /metrics endpoint.
Updated:18 min read - #AI#Kagent#SRE
Diagnosing OpenCTI with Kagent (6) - Drill 2: Invoice Failure After the SRE Upgrades
A blind rehearsal drill against the upgraded L402 monitoring. The pages fired in 2 minutes 21 seconds and the agent found the broken component, but it skipped a required tool and invented details. A blameless review of what happened.
12 min read - #AI#Kagent#Kubernetes
Diagnosing OpenCTI with Kagent (5) - Reviewing the Setup Against Google SRE
I reviewed the L402 payment gate's monitoring and on-call agent against the Google SRE Book and Workbook. Eight practices, what the review found, what changed, and the gaps that are still open.
9 min read - #AI#Kubernetes#Aperture
Diagnosing OpenCTI with Kagent (4) - Rehearsing Incidents with an LLM Agent
I rehearsed incidents against a Kagent on-call agent watching an Aperture L402 payment gate, then scored it against a playbook. The exercise found gaps in my own alerts too.
8 min read - #Lightning Network#lnd#L402
Lightning Payments for OpenCTI (3) - From Lightning Payment to a Paid Scan Order
How a paid Lightning invoice becomes a paid scan order, from the preimage and L402 proof to merchant settlement checks, durable receipt processing, and safe retries.
6 min read - #Lightning Network#lnd#L402
Lightning Payments for OpenCTI (2) - From a Scan Order to a Lightning Invoice
How our OpenCTI and ASM service turns a scan order into a Lightning invoice, from the server-side quote to Aperture's dynamic price lookup and the L402 challenge.
4 min read - #Lightning Network#lnd#L402
Lightning Payments for OpenCTI (1) - Aperture as a Payment Gate
How Aperture's L402 payment gate works, from a simple paid API to our OpenCTI and ASM service with order-based pricing and receipt verification, and where Aperture's job ends.
5 min read - #Lightning Network#lnd#Aperture
Introduction to Lightning Node Operations
Payment channels, HTLCs, directional liquidity, and where LND and Aperture fit, as the groundwork for operating a Lightning node.
8 min read - #Lightning Network#lnd#Aperture
Aperture L402 Security Event Monitoring Proposal
A proposal to replace Aperture's DEBUG-only L402 logs with structured, HMAC-referenced security events, with real before/after captures for each failure type.
6 min read