Websockets keep disconnecting for sites proxied via Cloudflare

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Cloudflare doesn’t give fixed numbers, only this…

WebSockets · Cloudflare Network settings docs

This thread hints at where the levels may roughly be…

Websocket disconnects frequently for some users

I host a game that runs about 500 concurrent websocket connections (one for each player). Some users are reporting as many as 8 to 30 times a day, the websocket will just randomly drop and reconnect. Personally I have only had a few of these in the last 19 hours and it doesn’t bother me. I expect some amount of drops due to Cloudflare servers restarting. For some users the frequency is very disruptive even if it does reconnect quickly. What can I do to diagnose what’s going on for those users? S…