{"version":"2.1.242","anchor":"the-bridge-heartbeats-sooner-and-while-partly-busy","canonical_anchor":"the-bridge-heartbeats-sooner-and-while-partly-busy","heading":"The bridge heartbeats sooner and while partly busy","tier":"internal","area":"Cloud Sessions","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.242\/e\/the-bridge-heartbeats-sooner-and-while-partly-busy","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.242","markdown":"### The bridge heartbeats sooner and while partly busy\n\nThe session bridge heartbeats sooner and while busy, so the server is less likely to drop it.\n\n**What**\n\nThe bridge now sends a heartbeat immediately after accepting a session, and keeps heartbeating when sessions are running but it still has spare capacity, so the server is less likely to consider it stale.\n\n**Details**\n\n- The one-shot heartbeat reports as `bridge_work_heartbeat`, or `initial_failed` on failure.\n- Below full capacity it heartbeats every `non_exclusive_heartbeat_interval_ms` from the server's bridge config, or every 60000 ms once a first heartbeat has been sent and the server-supplied interval is 0.\n- Previously heartbeats only ran while at the maximum session count.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`bridge_work_heartbeat`\n\n- Area: Cloud Sessions\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}