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Pain point · Permissions & security · Causes churn

Presence endpoint can exhaust memory on large workspaces

1 source thread · first seen 2026-09

Summary

An authenticated request to the presence endpoint without query parameters can load all non-offline users at once. On large workspaces this can cause memory spikes, block the event loop, and crash the Node.js process.

Affects
Workspace administrators and users of large workspaces

Evidence

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“This leads to severe event loop blockage, multi-gigabyte heap allocation spikes, and immediate Node.js process termination”

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