What is TORQ and how to install it?

Do you run a professional node? If so you need the best tool on the market to analyze and manage your precious node. Here we discuss about Torq.

A professional tool by LN Capital. They say:

Operating a large Lightning Node requires efficient channel and liquidity management. If a stable Lightning node is important to your business, you need professional tools that let you track, analyse and automate node management.

I run a professional Lightning node for our projects and I utilize this tool, which i find is the best at disposal for your node. It makes possible for me to check all parameters of my node, track liquidity and efficiency and adjust management for my business. There is nothing similar at all on the market at the moment.

They also say, about automation:

Automate advanced workflows with Torq and ensure that your capital is never standing still. Automatically adjust channel fees and rebalance while you sleep. Manual channel management is a thing of the past.

This is very important because you can not manage manually a professional node when the amount of channels and liquidity becomes really important. You must use a tool you can configure and that can carry all the business for you, to get the best from your precious Lightning node.

Installation is quite easy. I prepared a detailed how to because i think there are some more important tuning to do compared to standard install.

Please find the full installation howto at this link, this is complete and will explain to:

• install Torq

• configure to connect to your node either local or remote

• allow only certain ips to connect to the interface

• use nginx to proxy connection in order to avoid opening connection directly to outside

• configure letsencrypt certificate for the tool location

Please check out here the full guide:

https://www.massmux.com/howto-install-torq-on-a-lnd-lightning-node/