getIdentity

getIdentity is a Solana JSON-RPC method that returns the identity pubkey of the node serving your request. The response is an object with a single identity field holding the base-58 public key the node uses on the network that secures SOL. It is a quick way to tell exactly which physical node answered, which matters when many nodes sit behind one address. Send the request as a JSON-RPC 2.0 POST with an empty positional params array to https://solana.therpc.io/YOUR_API_KEY.

Use cases

• Identify which specific node a request landed on when several Solana RPC nodes share one endpoint behind a load balancer.
• Correlate your client logs to a node identity pubkey, so an intermittent error can be traced back to the exact node that produced it.

Parameters

Este método no acepta parámetros. Pasa un array vacío [].

Response

Example request

1curl https://solana.therpc.io/YOUR_API_KEY \
2  -X POST \
3  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
4  -d '{
5  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
6  "id": 1,
7  "method": "getIdentity",
8  "params": []
9}'

Errors & troubleshooting

Common pitfalls

• This is the node's identity pubkey, not its vote account — on a Solana validator the two are separate keys, so do not use the identity here to look up staking or voting state.

Supported networks

• Mainnet
• Devnet

See also

• getClusterNodes
• getVoteAccounts