← Blog · July 15, 2026 · Engineering

How one small agent monitors 10,000 miners without melting your switches

There's a question every large operator should ask a monitoring vendor before anything else: where does the scanning actually happen?

Why cloud polling breaks at scale

A "pure cloud" dashboard that reaches into your facility has to poll every miner's API over the WAN. At 200 machines that's tolerable. At 10,000 it means a continuous flood of inbound connections traversing your firewall, NAT table exhaustion, thousands of sockets held open across your access switches — and when the internet link blips, your entire monitoring history has a hole in it. It also requires exposing miner APIs to the internet in some form, which is how fleets end up in botnets.

The agent model

MinersMe Cloud works the other way. One lightweight agent runs on any Windows machine or VM inside the facility — a $200 mini-PC handles thousands of miners. The agent:

• Scans locally. It discovers and reads every ASIC on the LAN — Antminer (stock & Vnish), WhatsMiner, IceRiver, Avalon — using each vendor's native API, on stock firmware.
• Batches aggressively. Telemetry for the whole site is compressed into one periodic outbound HTTPS push. Your switches never see cloud polling traffic; your firewall needs zero inbound rules and no port forwarding.
• Executes bulk operations locally. When you change pools on 3,000 machines or re-IP a container, the commands run inside the LAN at wire speed — the cloud just orchestrates.
• Survives link loss. The site keeps scanning while offline and the console flags the gap honestly instead of pretending miners vanished.

Why this scales horizontally

Because each site carries its own scanner, adding capacity means adding agents, not scaling a central poller. Ten sites or fifty, one container or 100,000+ miners — the cloud aggregates per-site pipelines and enforces tenant isolation between companies. This is the same architectural family as Foreman's Pickaxe agent, and it's the only model we'd trust with a fleet measured in megawatts. Today it runs 5,500+ miners across 32 production sites.

Deploy it yourself in ~15 minutes: the getting-started guide, or create a free company account.