Why does a Shiny app get disconnected when not used for a while?

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I have a Shiny app running in a Shiny server that is installed on a Ubuntu 16.04 server.

When the app is loaded in a browser but not run for a while, it gets disconnected.

Is there a solution that prevents this?

2 Answers

You can try to put a repeating signal into your server function that worked for my app to be kept alive:

#Keep App alive
keep_alive <- shiny::reactiveTimer(intervalMs = 10000, 
                                        session = shiny::getDefaultReactiveDomain())

shiny::observe({keep_alive()})
  

You can actually disable app_idle_timeout for good by setting it to 0 in your Shiny server config file:

location / {
    app_idle_timeout 0;
}
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