Optimism - WebSocket Temporarily Disabled – Incident details

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WebSocket Temporarily Disabled

Resolved
Operational
Started over 2 years agoLasted about 4 hours

Affected

Mainnet

Operational from 5:23 PM to 9:07 PM

Public API

Operational from 5:23 PM to 9:07 PM

Updates
  • Resolved
    Resolved

    Measures have been put in place to reduce the impact of the malicious traffic. WebSockets have been re-enabled.

  • Identified
    Identified

    We have temporarily disabled WebSocket functionality on the public endpoint in order to mitigate abusive traffic. We are working on a mitigation. In the meantime, please use an infrastructure provider like Infura or Alchemy if you need WebSocket support.