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html: configure-the-peer-crawler.html
parent: configure-peering.html
blurb: Configure how much information your rippled server reports publicly about its status and peers.
labels:
- Core Server
- Security
---
# Configure the Peer Crawler
By default, [`rippled` servers](xrpl-servers.html) provide statistics publicly to anyone who asks using the [peer crawler API](peer-crawler.html), to make it easier to track the health and topology of [the XRP Ledger's peer-to-peer network](peer-protocol.html). You can configure your server to provide more or less information, or to reject peer crawler requests entirely.
This document contains steps for two options:
- [Change the Information Reported by the Peer Crawler](#change-the-information-reported-by-the-peer-crawler)
- [Disable the Peer Crawler](#disable-the-peer-crawler)
## Change the Information Reported by the Peer Crawler
To configure how much information your server provides in response to peer crawler requests, complete the following steps:
1. Edit your `rippled`'s config file.
vim /etc/opt/ripple/rippled.cfg
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2. Add or update the `[crawl]` stanza in your config file, and save the changes:
[crawl]
overlay = 1
server = 1
counts = 0
unl = 1
The fields in this stanza control which fields the server returns in the [peer crawler response](peer-crawler.html#response-format). The names of the config fields match the fields of the API response. A setting with a value of `1` means to include the field in the response. A value of `0` means to omit that field from the response. This example shows the default values for each setting.
3. After saving the changes to the config file, restart your `rippled` server to apply the updated configuration:
systemctl restart rippled
## Disable the Peer Crawler
To disable the peer crawler API on your server, so it does not respond to peer crawler requests at all, complete the following steps:
1. Edit your `rippled`'s config file.
vim /etc/opt/ripple/rippled.cfg
{% include '_snippets/conf-file-location.md' %}<!--_ -->
2. Add or update the `[crawl]` stanza in your config file, and save the changes:
[crawl]
0
Remove or comment out all other contents of the crawl stanza.
3. After saving the changes to the config file, restart your `rippled` server to apply the updated configuration:
systemctl restart rippled
## See Also
- **Concepts:**
- [Peer Protocol](peer-protocol.html)
- **Tutorials:**
- [Manage the rippled Server](manage-the-rippled-server.html)
- **References:**
- [server_info method][]
- [peers method][]
- [Peer Crawler](peer-crawler.html)
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