diff --git a/management/internals/shared/grpc/components_encoder.go b/management/internals/shared/grpc/components_encoder.go
index e3f708c41..d67102b79 100644
--- a/management/internals/shared/grpc/components_encoder.go
+++ b/management/internals/shared/grpc/components_encoder.go
@@ -188,9 +188,6 @@ func (e *componentEncoder) encodeGroups() []*proto.GroupCompact {
 
 	out := make([]*proto.GroupCompact, 0, len(e.components.Groups))
 	for _, g := range e.components.Groups {
-		if !g.HasSeqID() {
-			continue
-		}
 		peers := make([]string, 0, len(g.Peers))
 		for _, peerID := range g.Peers {
 			if _, ok := e.dedupPeers[peerID]; ok { // TODO (dmitri) is that necessary?