Stellar tooling

curl YOUR_CHAINSTACK_ENDPOINT \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"getHealth"}'

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": {
    "status": "healthy",
    "latestLedger": 64065198,
    "latestLedgerCloseTime": "1787363249",
    "oldestLedger": 63028399,
    "oldestLedgerCloseTime": "1781453141",
    "ledgerRetentionWindow": 1036800
  }
}

// npm install @stellar/stellar-sdk
import { rpc } from "@stellar/stellar-sdk";

const server = new rpc.Server("YOUR_CHAINSTACK_ENDPOINT");

const health = await server.getHealth();
console.log("getHealth:", health.status, "| latest", health.latestLedger, "| oldest", health.oldestLedger);

const network = await server.getNetwork();
console.log("getNetwork:", network.passphrase);

const ledger = await server.getLatestLedger();
console.log("getLatestLedger: sequence", ledger.sequence, "protocol", ledger.protocolVersion);

getHealth: healthy | latest 64065193 | oldest 63028394
getNetwork: Public Global Stellar Network ; September 2015
getLatestLedger: sequence 64065193 protocol 27

const { latestLedger } = await server.getHealth();

const { ledgers } = await server.getLedgers({
  startLedger: latestLedger - 2,
  pagination: { limit: 3 },
});

for (const l of ledgers) {
  console.log(`ledger ${l.sequence} closed at ${new Date(l.ledgerCloseTime * 1000).toISOString()}`);
}

ledger 64065203 closed at 2026-08-22T01:47:57.000Z
ledger 64065204 closed at 2026-08-22T01:48:03.000Z
ledger 64065205 closed at 2026-08-22T01:48:08.000Z

# pip install stellar-sdk
from stellar_sdk import SorobanServer

server = SorobanServer("YOUR_CHAINSTACK_ENDPOINT")

health = server.get_health()
print("get_health:", health.status, "| latest", health.latest_ledger, "| oldest", health.oldest_ledger)

network = server.get_network()
print("get_network:", network.passphrase, "| protocol", network.protocol_version)

ledger = server.get_latest_ledger()
print("get_latest_ledger: sequence", ledger.sequence)

get_health: healthy | latest 64065195 | oldest 63028396
get_network: Public Global Stellar Network ; September 2015 | protocol 27
get_latest_ledger: sequence 64065195