To be honest, there are several issues with GC and filewalkers and how they were designed.
And we saw it long before December 2023 that something did not fit:
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Today we know why… These nodes are getting cleared of their waste just these days now with over a year getting not paid accordingly and not getting ingress while only half full in reality…
But the lack of easy tools to investigate and monitor made it impossible to sort it out.
That’s the problem if you make it hard for SNOs and make them dig into logs and APIs and crazy debug information. Then it is not easy to investigate problems too.
If we had it in the dashboard what the satellites thinks the node should have and what the nodes thinks it has, then we would have been able to spot the problems much earlier before December 2023.