Dear Council members, This tip is for Jim Farley from CertHum member of the Thousand Validator Programme on Kusama. He has created amazing articles for securing, monitoring, and maintenance of Substrate Validators (Polkadot and Kusama, parachains).

Securing Prometheus between your Prometheus Instance and your Polkadot / Kusama Validators https://medium.com/certhum/securing-prometheus-between-your-prometheus-instance-and-your-polkadot-kusama-validators-9044fc21c2a4

Global Monitoring Infrastructure for Polkadot and Kusama https://medium.com/certhum/global-monitoring-infrastructure-for-polkadot-and-kusama-ccd06a05ee9b

Automated Backup of Polkadot and Kusama Chain Database to Azure Blob https://medium.com/certhum/automated-backup-of-polkadot-and-kusama-chain-database-to-azure-blob-fb3bfedb3320

Polkadot and Kusama Validator SIPOC https://medium.com/certhum/polkadot-and-kusama-validator-sipoc-a2cef4647229