Harvester did not participate in any challenge for X seconds

[Godbot]

Hi,
I'm getting a lot of "Harvester did not participate in any challenge for X seconds. It's now working again." Times range from 70 to 140 seconds. This doesn't seem good. Can you tell me what this is actually reporting on so I can try to diagnose and resolve it?

Thanks a lot!

[martomi]

👋 These are example harvester events.

chiadog expects to see them approximately every 8-9 seconds, that's how often new signage points are typically distributed on the network and for each one of them the harvester is supposed to look for a proof in the plots that have passed the filter.

There are cases when longer silent periods of 30-60 seconds occur, these are unusual but do happen few times per day and usually don't indicate a problem. Anything over 60 seconds is usually related to skipped signage points. I.e. the harvester likely didn't participate in some challenge and potentially (statistically unlikely) missed out on a reward.

That's the very high-level on what chiadog is checking. For more infos, you should refer to other official Chia resources on how things are expected to work.

[Godbot]

Excellent, thank you for the informative response!