Is there any way to know that a node or miner node is actually alive or running?

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Is there any way to know that a full node or miner node is actually alive or running?
asked Nov 21, 2017 by Ilhun

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What I 've experienced so far, if a node goes into a state where it's unresponsive to any commands, that node is no longer visible in the getpeerinfo of other nodes.
answered Nov 22, 2017 by ashish235
selected Nov 22, 2017 by Ilhun
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There is no built-in functionality for this, but it would be fairly easy to have a stream in which nodes publish a 'heartbeat' to show they are still alive.
answered Nov 22, 2017 by MultiChain
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