Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) participating in a sidelink communications group increments a transmit counter for each packet transmitted by the first UE as part of group communications among the sidelink communications group, increments a receive counter for each packet received by the first UE from a second UE participating in the sidelink communications group as part of group communications among the sidelink communications group; and transmits the transmit counter and the receive counter to a network node based on a configuration received from the network node.