Blockchain Observers

Observers are a type of nodes that don't participate in the consensus but keep a peer-to-peer communication with the rest of the blockchain. They are usually used to see the communication between nodes (ex: debugging).

Let's filter the nodes to see only the observers. There is an Observers tab below the Nodes section.

We can observer the same fields as the nodes, but there is no Rating. Why is that?

Note that each Observer is only on a Shard.

What should we do if we want to listen to the communication on every shard?

Observer that there are other types of nodes