# Configure the Peer Crawler

By default, [`rippled` servers](/es-es/docs/concepts/networks-and-servers) provide statistics publicly to anyone who asks using the [peer crawler API](/es-es/docs/references/http-websocket-apis/peer-port-methods/peer-crawler), to make it easier to track the health and topology of [the XRP Ledger's peer-to-peer network](/es-es/docs/concepts/networks-and-servers/peer-protocol). You can configure your server to provide more or less information, or to reject peer crawler requests entirely.

This document contains steps for two options:

- [Change the Information Reported by the Peer Crawler](#change-the-information-reported-by-the-peer-crawler)
- [Disable the Peer Crawler](#disable-the-peer-crawler)


## Change the Information Reported by the Peer Crawler

To configure how much information your server provides in response to peer crawler requests, complete the following steps:

1. Edit your `rippled`'s config file.

```
vim /etc/opt/ripple/rippled.cfg
```

2. Add or update the `[crawl]` stanza in your config file, and save the changes:

```
[crawl]
overlay = 1
server = 1
counts = 0
unl = 1
```
The fields in this stanza control which fields the server returns in the [peer crawler response](/es-es/docs/references/http-websocket-apis/peer-port-methods/peer-crawler#response-format). The names of the config fields match the fields of the API response. A setting with a value of `1` means to include the field in the response. A value of `0` means to omit that field from the response. This example shows the default values for each setting.
3. After saving the changes to the config file, restart your `rippled` server to apply the updated configuration:

```
systemctl restart rippled
```


## Disable the Peer Crawler

To disable the peer crawler API on your server, so it does not respond to peer crawler requests at all, complete the following steps:

1. Edit your `rippled`'s config file.

```
vim /etc/opt/ripple/rippled.cfg
```

2. Add or update the `[crawl]` stanza in your config file, and save the changes:

```
[crawl]
0
```
Remove or comment out all other contents of the crawl stanza.
3. After saving the changes to the config file, restart your `rippled` server to apply the updated configuration:

```
systemctl restart rippled
```


## See Also

- **Concepts:**
  - [Peer Protocol](/es-es/docs/concepts/networks-and-servers/peer-protocol)
- **Tutorials:**
  - [Manage the rippled Server](/es-es/docs/infrastructure/installation/install-rippled-on-ubuntu)
- **References:**
  - [server_info method](/docs/references/http-websocket-apis/public-api-methods/server-info-methods/server_info)
  - [peers method](/docs/references/http-websocket-apis/admin-api-methods/peer-management-methods/peers)
  - [Peer Crawler](/es-es/docs/references/http-websocket-apis/peer-port-methods/peer-crawler)