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Multi-Shard Telemetry

Shard Detection

Large Discord bots split their gateway connection across multiple shards. Monitor allows you to track individual shard latency, connectivity, and guild distributions.

Supported Shard Statuses

healthy

Shard WebSocket is connected and communicating with Discord.

degraded

High latency, reconnect loop, or partial packet loss.

disconnected

Shard connection has dropped or failed to resume.

Example Dashboard Shard Fleet

SHARD IDLATENCYSTATUSGUILDS
Shard #042msHealthy125 guilds
Shard #151msHealthy118 guilds
Shard #2--Disconnected--

Informational Shard Safeguard

A single disconnected shard does NOT automatically mean the entire bot is offline. Shard telemetry is informational to help you debug partial outages.

If guild_count is omitted by your bot, Monitor will intentionally display no guild count rather than fabricating a false zero.