Guides

Field notes for validator operators. Each article stands alone and links to glossary entries where terms first appear.

Identity & staking
Mapping vote accounts to your identity keypair

Why delegators see a different pubkey than the one in your validator start script — and how to verify the link on-chain.
Leader slots
How to read a slot-leader schedule without guessing

Pull the epoch schedule from RPC, align it with your vote credits, and spot gaps before your monitoring alerts fire.
Network health
Spotting validator skew before your skip rate climbs

Compare root distance, gossip round-trip time, and banking-stage histograms to separate local lag from cluster-wide stalls.