Rooms not being deleted automatically

Client SDKs
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I noticed this morning that my rooms are not getting deleted automatically when there are zero participants. They are still active after hours. Any ideas?

┌─────────────────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────┬────────────┐
│ RoomID          │ Name                 │ Participants │ Publishers │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────┤
│ RM_AY5wLMdZn9Hn │ TCQAIizakG4rHKu9tp2L │ 0            │ 0          │
│ RM_YNEkpU4MDFgr │ 62XakVyAZD04XkNPDN6x │ 0            │ 0          │
│ RM_YxdZQjLcoWn9 │ jhpbNJb3ypikA0Jcfwid │ 0            │ 0          │
│ RM_5DY2933Tfg83 │ hPBhTJ9ZlTcT1phfdAE1 │ 0            │ 0          │
│ RM_hcnwB3EFTT6i │ 5KrpycsEfAuKSMRKmrWQ │ 0            │ 0          │
│ RM_QrXKGRATT67B │ iedQF72QGFUoRal0WdwO │ 0            │ 0          │
│ RM_3BALZHGGxGiP │ aPd2rRnQBaWB1PKI47UD │ 0            │ 0          │
│ RM_KD4X8s5GHNTL │ 3TzyyCHMFDPkI1953lC3 │ 0            │ 0          │
│ RM_KujPjwfYK6C6 │ JWVpWuFbeHwyoSPEGxL6 │ 0            │ 0          │
│ RM_NovxH8SzBMDT │ PhNkEHYogLqb6ZXeEKlp │ 0            │ 0          │
│ RM_fhuLzDHj2MRF │ MvcmFOzvGxluFRjSOngL │ 0            │ 0          │
└─────────────────┴──────────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────┘
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I’m hitting the same issue in Livekit Cloud.

I noticed that all the rooms (Even the ones that are still up) log a “Participant left (ROOM_CLOSED)” in the Session events, and that the ones that successfully close are followed up with a “Room ended” event. Would this imply that the room close path is hanging? Has anything changed recently in Livekit server/cloud that might cause this?

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I am seeing the same thing in livekit-cloud dashboard. My room is still open in the CLI. Also I never received a web hook for the room_finished

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We are seeing this as well. I sent an email to livekit support.

We also got a usage warning email that I think may be related

Usage warning: 80% of _____'s requests per minute on LiveKit used
Hi _______,
Your project traeger-prod has recently reached 8045 requests per minute, which is nearing the limit of 10000. To avoid service disruption for your users, please review your options in the settings page for your project.

EDIT: as of ~4pm PDT, our queue of empty rooms seems to have been cleaned up

5

Look like it has been fixed. I’ll check in the morning more. Thank you livekit team!

6

Apologies @jakemail8 , @amanda , @Madeleine_North

This would have been caused by this incident: LiveKit Status - Increased Latency in RoomService APIs, brief period of higher error rate

The incident is now resolved and, I’m glad to see you are no longer seeing these errors.

For anyone finding this thread in the future, most typically this kind of issue is not caused by an incident, and the below FAQ should help: