diff --git a/api/api.js b/api/api.js
index 9ad9c5ff..fc8339d0 100644
--- a/api/api.js
+++ b/api/api.js
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import redis from 'redis';
 import WebSocket from 'ws';
 import _ from 'lodash';
 import './inbound-stream';
+import './uptime-crawler';
 import geoip from 'geoip-lite';
 import YAML from 'yaml';
 import fs from 'fs';
diff --git a/api/uptime-crawler.js b/api/uptime-crawler.js
index 67af23c8..45b2a23b 100644
--- a/api/uptime-crawler.js
+++ b/api/uptime-crawler.js
@@ -4,15 +4,19 @@ import YAML from 'yaml';
 import redis from 'redis';
 import {promisify} from 'util';
 import {exec} from 'child_process';
+import {sync as commandExistsSync} from 'command-exists';
 
 import config from './config';
 
-const SOLANA_WALLET_PATH =
-  process.env.SOLANA_WALLET_PATH || '../solana/target/debug';
 const FULLNODE_URL = process.env.FULLNODE_URL || 'http://localhost:8899';
 
 const REFRESH_INTERVAL = 10 * 60 * 1000; // 10min
 
+if (!commandExistsSync('solana-wallet')) {
+  throw 'solana-wallet command not found!';
+}
+
+
 function getClient() {
   let props = config.redis.path
     ? {path: config.redis.path}
@@ -29,7 +33,7 @@ function getVoteAccountUptime(x) {
 
   const p = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
     exec(
-      `${SOLANA_WALLET_PATH}/solana-wallet -u ${FULLNODE_URL} show-vote-account ${x.votePubkey}`,
+      `solana-wallet -u ${FULLNODE_URL} show-vote-account ${x.votePubkey}`,
       (err, stdout, stderr) => {
         const t2 = new Date().getTime();
 
@@ -75,6 +79,7 @@ function getVoteAccountUptime(x) {
 }
 
 async function refreshUptime() {
+  console.log('uptime updater: updating...');
   const connection = new solanaWeb3.Connection(FULLNODE_URL);
   let voting = await connection.getEpochVoteAccounts();
 
@@ -84,6 +89,7 @@ async function refreshUptime() {
 
   Promise.all(allTasks).then(async results => {
     await setAsync('!uptime', JSON.stringify(results));
+    console.log('uptime updater: updated successfully.');
   });
 }
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c767611c..c1051863 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     "babel-plugin-transform-runtime": "^6.23.0",
     "base-58": "^0.0.1",
     "classnames": "^2.2.6",
+    "command-exists": "^1.2.8",
     "copy-to-clipboard": "^3.2.0",
     "cors": "^2.8.5",
     "date-fns": "^1.30.1",
@@ -99,7 +100,6 @@
     "prepack": "set -ex; npm run lint; npm run build",
     "pretty": "prettier --write '{,{api,proxy,src}/**/}*.js{,x}'",
     "re": "semantic-release --repository-url git@github.com:solana-labs/blockexplorer.git",
-    "start:uptime-crawler": "set -ex; redis-cli ping; babel-node --presets env api/uptime-crawler.js",
     "start:api": "set -ex; redis-cli ping; babel-node --presets env api/api.js",
     "start:proxy": "babel-node --presets env proxy",
     "start:ui": "react-app-rewired start",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index b786959d..238dea2f 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -4604,6 +4604,11 @@ comma-separated-tokens@^1.0.0:
   dependencies:
     trim "0.0.1"
 
+command-exists@^1.2.8:
+  version "1.2.8"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/command-exists/-/command-exists-1.2.8.tgz#715acefdd1223b9c9b37110a149c6392c2852291"
+  integrity sha512-PM54PkseWbiiD/mMsbvW351/u+dafwTJ0ye2qB60G1aGQP9j3xK2gmMDc+R34L3nDtx4qMCitXT75mkbkGJDLw==
+
 commander@2, commander@^2.11.0, commander@^2.12.2, commander@^2.20.0:
   version "2.20.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/commander/-/commander-2.20.0.tgz#d58bb2b5c1ee8f87b0d340027e9e94e222c5a422"