So… today/yesterday we did some maintenance and enabled the new nginx proxy. Initially because the packets were now going through nginx and then a docker nginx I thought our monitoring was flagging the traffic twice.

CPU was slightly elevated but nothing that our server couldn’t handle.

So I did a little check later on in the day and found that we were returning a 429 error code for someone who was spamming the websocket endpoint.

Turns out… It was me! Our post bot was erroring out and resulted in a over 1000 pps increase on top of all traffic. We have around 100-200 packets per second regularly.

Everything is back to normal :)