If you’ve followed the series so far, you’ve deployed a smart contract using Kalp Instant Deployer, created wallets using KS Wallet, and maybe even generated REST APIs with the API Gateway. But once your smart contract is live, one important question remains:
How do you keep track of what’s happening on-chain?
Deployment isn’t the final task; it’s the starting point. In a production-grade dApp, you need clear visibility into contract activity:
- What’s been executed?
- Who initiated the transaction?
- Did the transfer succeed?
- What’s the state after the change?
Traditionally, developers turn to public explorers like Etherscan or RPC logs to trace this information. But that often involves navigating a sea of hashes, manual searches, and log decoding.
KS Explorer, and Kalp Studio, change that. It brings contract-level monitoring directly into the Kalp Studio experience—fast, readable, and tailored for developers.
What KS Explorer Solves
KS Explorer is not just a blockchain viewer. It’s a purpose-built monitoring tool that:
- Tracks every transaction associated with your smart contract or wallet
- Links actions directly to your project in Kalp Studio
- Provides clean visual breakdowns: block number, timestamp, sender, and event logs
- Supports filtering, sorting, and wallet-level insights across multiple projects
It’s like having a real-time console for your blockchain backend.
Why Is It Important?
Monitoring smart contracts used to be reactive. Developers deployed contracts and hoped nothing broke. If something did go wrong, debugging meant reverse-engineering a transaction hash.
That’s no longer acceptable when you’re building for users at scale. Here’s what changes with Kalp Studio + KS Explorer:
- You get a live stream of on-chain events, scoped to your project
- You don’t need to jump between the dApp frontend, Etherscan, and debug tools
- You can tie blockchain activity directly to wallet actions, API calls, and user sessions
Major Benefits:
- Faster debugging of failed transactions
- Real-time insight into contract usage and performance
- Transparency for audit trails and compliance
- Better support and troubleshooting for end-users
Step-by-Step: Monitoring Transactions with Kalp Studio
Let’s walk through how to use Kalp Studio and KS Explorer to monitor a deployed contract.
Step 1: Log into Kalp Studio Console
Head to console.kalp.studio and select your smart contract.
You should have your wallet created and a smart contract deployed.
If not, check out our previous articles: https://dev.to/kalpstudio
Step 2: Open the KS Explorer Panel
Once you’ve deployed the smart contract and generated the APIs—and you’ve initiated some transactions—it’s time to monitor them.
Go to kalpscan.io, Kalp’s native blockchain explorer.
Step 3: View Contract Details
You’ll see a high-level overview including:
- Contract address
- Creation transaction
- Network and block height
- Current gas usage and confirmations
Step 4: Monitor Incoming and Outgoing Transactions
Every contract call—whether from an API, frontend, or wallet—is captured and displayed with:
- Timestamps
- Function called (e.g.,
transfer,mint,claim) - Initiator address
Step 5: Filter by Wallet or Function
You can filter results by:
- Specific wallets
- Contract functions
- Time range
- Status (success/failure)
This makes it easy to debug issues or verify behaviour after frontend interaction.
Example Use Case: Tracking NFT Claims in Real Time
Let’s say you’ve deployed a KRC‑721 contract for an NFT collection using KID and integrated a claim function into your frontend.
With KS Explorer, you can:
- See each claim transaction in real-time
- Verify whether the NFT was minted and transferred
- Confirm which wallet triggered it, and on which network
- Debug failed claims without needing to touch raw contract logs
This brings operational visibility directly into your dev workflow.
KS Explorer vs Traditional Explorers
| Feature | Etherscan / Blockscout | KS Explorer |
|---|---|---|
| Network-specific UI | Yes | Yes |
| Project-specific filter | No | Yes |
| Built-in to dev console | No | Yes |
| Multi-contract linkage | Manual | Native in Kalp projects |
| Wallet tracking | Limited | Integrated via KS Wallet |
| No-code access | Limited | Fully UI-driven |
What You Can Do with This Visibility
- Product teams can trace user journeys and flows without blockchain knowledge
- Developers can validate contract functions post-deployment
- Support teams can troubleshoot user issues using wallet-linked logs
- Security teams can monitor anomalies and enforce internal thresholds
All of this, without ever leaving the Kalp Studio console.
What’s Next in the Series
In our next article, we’ll take things further, like how you can create a full application with ease using Kalp Studio.
Stay tuned.