* View your vote account:`solana vote-account ~/validator-vote-keypair.json` This displays the current state of all the votes the validator has submitted to the network.
* View your stake account, the delegation preference and details of your stake:`solana stake-account ~/validator-stake-keypair.json`
*`solana validators` displays the current active stake of all validators, including yours
*`solana stake-history ` shows the history of stake warming up and cooling down over recent epochs
* Look for log messages on your validator indicating your next leader slot: `[2019-09-27T20:16:00.319721164Z INFO solana_core::replay_stage] <VALIDATOR_IDENTITY_PUBKEY> voted and reset PoH at tick height ####. My next leader slot is ####`
* Once your stake is warmed up, you will see a stake balance listed for your validator on the [Solana Network Explorer](http://explorer.solana.com/validators)
* After your validator is caught up, use the `solana balance` command to monitor the earnings as your validator is selected as leader and collects transaction fees
* Solana nodes offer a number of useful JSON-RPC methods to return information about the network and your validator's participation. Make a request by using curl \(or another http client of your choosing\), specifying the desired method in JSON-RPC-formatted data. For example:
*`getEpochInfo`[An epoch](../terminology.md#epoch) is the time, i.e. number of [slots](../terminology.md#slot), for which a [leader schedule](../terminology.md#leader-schedule) is valid. This will tell you what the current epoch is and how far into it the cluster is.
*`getVoteAccounts` This will tell you how much active stake your validator currently has. A % of the validator's stake is activated on an epoch boundary. You can learn more about staking on Solana [here](../cluster/stake-delegation-and-rewards.md).
*`getLeaderSchedule` At any given moment, the network expects only one validator to produce ledger entries. The [validator currently selected to produce ledger entries](../cluster/leader-rotation.md#leader-rotation) is called the “leader”. This will return the complete leader schedule \(on a slot-by-slot basis\) for currently activated stake, the identity pubkey will show up 1 or more times here.