Network and subnets
Discover shows the Internet Computer as anyone can see it: no sign-in, no Agent. Every figure is public. It’s available on Mainnet.
The network at a glance
Section titled “The network at a glance”Discover › Overview opens with five figures: subnets, nodes and their data centres, canisters and how many were added in the last day, cycles burned per second, and how many cycles one ICP buys.
Compare subnets
Section titled “Compare subnets”Discover › Subnets lists every subnet, busiest first. A subnet’s load is the work it executed per second over the time range, as a share of its maximum.
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Busy | Load at 80% or more over the range. |
| Upgrading | An adopted proposal is upgrading it. |
| Healthy | Neither. |
Open a subnet
Section titled “Open a subnet”A subnet’s page shows its load, canister count and growth, memory against its capacity, and the share of blocks that failed.
- Nodes: each node’s status, provider, region and software version.
- Decentralization: node providers, countries, data centres and the Nakamoto coefficient.
- Your canisters here: the canisters from your workspaces that run on this subnet.
Good to know
Section titled “Good to know”- A busy or upgrading subnet is a lead during an incident, not proof. Compare it with your canister’s own Timeline.
- A figure that couldn’t be read says Could not read, never zero. The others still work.
- The failed-blocks share isn’t a measure of node availability.
- Discover only reads. To move a canister, see Move to another subnet.