Heroku unable to reproduce H12 response time out error page - heroku

We had a H12 response timeout error page issue on our Heroku server.
When that happen, We estimate there was only about 20+ concurrent users.
We want to reproduce this in a stress test, and then update the server configuration to ensure it wont happen again.
But we couldn't reproduce the H12 application error page again regardless of how much stress we put on Heroku.
I used https://github.com/thomasdondorf/puppeteer-cluster to try to simulate 250 concurrent users.
The code is like this:
const { Cluster } = require('puppeteer-cluster');
var workerID = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000);
(async () => {
// Create a cluster with 2 workers
const cluster = await Cluster.launch({
concurrency: Cluster.CONCURRENCY_CONTEXT,
maxConcurrency: 5,
puppeteerOptions: {
headless: true,
args:['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox']
}
});
// Define a task (in this case: screenshot of page)
await cluster.task(async ({ page, data: url }) => {
await page.goto(url, {
waitUntil: 'networkidle2', timeout: 0
});
await page.waitForTimeout(10 * 1000)
const path = url.replace(/[^a-zA-Z]/g, '_') + '.png';
await page.screenshot({ path });
console.log(`${workerID}: Screenshot of ${url} saved: ${path}`);
});
// Add some pages to queue
for(var i=0; i<100; i++){
cluster.queue('https://server.com/page1');
cluster.queue('https://server.com/page2');
cluster.queue('https://server.com/page3');
}
// Shutdown after everything is done
await cluster.idle();
await cluster.close();
})();
I believe the code above simulates 5 concurrent users loading the pages. Then we created 50 dynos, effectively simulating 250 users.
But unfortunately, we didnt get the H12 error page at all. But we got a bunch of H27.
Any Heroku experts know why we didn't able to reproduce H12 in a stress test setup like this?

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And, it seems that after the constant polling on that broken page starts, then the test page also starts doing it and doesn't work unless I restart my nodejs server. If I navigate to the broken page from the test page through nextjs, it also works, but a refresh then breaks it again. Any reason why this is so?
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Backend Server
require("dotenv").config();
const port = process.env.SOCKET_PORT || 3000;
const main_server_url = process.env.SERVER_URL;
var express = require("express");
var app = express();
var server = app.listen(port);
var connectionOptions = {
"force new connection": true,
"reconnection": true,
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"reconnectionDelayMax": 60000, //1 minute maximum delay between connections
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"timeout": 10000, //before connect_error and connect_timeout are emitted.
"transports": ["websocket"] //forces the transport to be only websocket. Server needs to be setup as well/
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var axios = require("axios");
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I expect that the request will be canceled, while chrome has no internet connection.
Here is a screenshot of the request in a state of pending instead of failed:
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Side Note: My web application runs under localhost.
Not the best solution but my mate Ilja KO found a workaround. I just set a timeout with the instance of axios to abort the requests, even if chrome got a internet-connection or not.
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var self = this;
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lcm.boot('test', function() {
self.app = lcm.express;
self.app.listen(4000, done);
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});
It throws "Error: connect ECONNREFUSED" when I tried to connect with supertest:
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[Update]
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I've answered this on Locomotive's github for an issue, however I wanted to share here to get some feedback, as in better ways, cleaner, or any other input you might have.
I require multiple servers in an OAuth2 environment (auth, resource, dashboard..) of which mostly are Locomotive framework based.
I like functional tests since they best represent OAuth2 based authentication as opposed to only focusing my tests on a resource service where the authentication token might not best represent the user.
Here is the setup I've come up with for starting up the locomotive servers:
For your tests, say like in test/util.severs.js
var fork = require('child_process').fork,
async = require("async");
var authApp;
var serverStatus = [];
var start = function(done) {
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Note that I'm using async here since I'm working with multiple servers (Environment is in OAuth2 which requires many servers to startup (IE resource, dashboard...)), ignore async if all you'll ever have is one server.
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...
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after(servers.stop);
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// if being started as a parent process, send() won't exist, simply define
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if (process.send === undefined){
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process.send({status: 'starting'});
...
app.boot(function(err) {
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Using Locomotive 0.4.x here, could be different based on your version.
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heroku http streaming (sse) disconnect not detected with express.js

Heroku is not detecting when a client disconnects.
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var sse = require('connect-sse')();
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date = new Date();
res.json({
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When I go to my app I see the correct reponse:
id: 0
data: {"ping":"2014-01-05T23:53:49.835Z"}
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This works locally with foreman start but not on heroku.
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