# GraphOps Update September 2025

**URL:** <https://forum.thegraph.com/t/graphops-update-september-2025/6729>\
**Category:** Core Team Updates\
**Tags:** graphops\
**Created:** [October 4, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/graphops-update-september-2025/6729 "2025-10-04T19:31:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/graphops-update-september-2025/6729/1 "2025-10-04T19:31:23Z")

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# GraphOps – Monthly Report – September 2025

## 🧑‍🚀 Summary

This September, GraphOps advanced our Tycho work with initial in-cluster validation underway and a specification for the asset price service to unblock independent operation. The team also worked on improving data ingestion, enhancing `substreams-sink-sql` to include new CSV backfill functionality. We also introduced new message-queue sinks for Substreams to support Kafka/Redpanda and NATS and worked on operational tooling improvements and message fanout strategies.

Launchpad Charts now support exposing P2P over LoadBalancer services for erigon and heimdall-v2, and dashboards support for Grafana Operator CRDs. We shipped new chart releases, tracking upstream for solutions like nimbus, lighthouse, and several others. Launchpad Namespaces received dependency updates across Graph Network Indexer, Graph Node, and advanced the proxy configuration with new features in Proxyd.

Happy October 2025 everyone! ✨

## 🎉 Team Updates: What was delivered

### Data Ingestion Architecture & Testing

- Improved substreams-sink-sql: better Protobuf annotation support in `from-proto`.
- Introduced `from-proto-generate-csv`: emits CSVs matching `from-proto` schemas for efficient historical backfills.
- New Substreams message queue sinks: Kafka/Redpanda and NATS JetStream.
- Operational tooling: scripts for fanout strategies (topic/stream partitioning) and example docker-compose setups.

### Kubernetes Launchpad ([Graph Network Subgraph](https://github.com/graphprotocol/graph-network-subgraph), [Graph Network Substreams](https://github.com/graphops/graph-network-substreams), [Graph Activity Subgraph](https://github.com/graphprotocol/graph-activity-subgraph), [Network Monitoring Subgraph](https://github.com/graphprotocol/network-monitoring-subgraph), [Network Analytics Subgraph](https://github.com/graphprotocol/graph-network-analytics-subgraph))

- Launchpad charts: erigon and heimdall-v2 now support exposing P2P over LoadBalancer services.
- Dashboards: revamped, plus support for deploying dashboards via Grafana Operator CRDs.
- Chart releases: tracked upstream and shipped new releases for nimbus, lighthouse, graph-node, erigon, graph-network-indexer, arbitrum-nitro, arbitrum-classic, proxyd, and openebs-rawfile-localpv.

Development Activity (PRs)

- [Launchpad Charts](https://github.com/graphops/launchpad-charts):

- [Launchpad Namespaces](https://github.com/graphops/launchpad-namespaces):

## 🤝 Ecosystem Relations

- [Recordings](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7G_cCufIVUdUUUf-jdoVA) and [agendas](https://graphops.notion.site/Indexer-Office-Hours-952e0b50a65144768aab922e2c9d102a) for Indexer Office Hours are available. We began a “Road to Horizon” section to highlight the efforts on the upcoming upgrade.
- Follow Indexer Office Hours updates on Twitter [@TheGraphIOH](https://x.com/TheGraphIOH) and GraphOps updates at [@graphopsxyz](https://x.com/graphopsxyz)

## Looking Ahead (Upcoming Priorities)

- Tycho & Data Ingestion: Finalize endpoint for Tycho Indexer to begin functional and latency tests. Start data ingestion with CSV pattern in the cluster. Explore reorg handling implementation for message queue pattern (gap analysis has been thoroughly documented).
- Launchpad: dashboard revamps planned for lighthouse and heimdall-v2.

### Ecosystem Relations

Join the community for Indexer Office Hours every Tuesday at 5pm UTC in the [Graph Protocol Discord](https://discord.com/invite/graphprotocol).