Why does dashboard take port 5000?

1

I set up dashboard to run on port 9000 while the gateway on 8000. I find no mention about port 5000 in the configs. However, when the dashboard starts it takes port 5000 too, preventing other software to use that. When I stop the dashboard with sudo service tyk-dashboard stop port 5000 gets free and I can run other services there. Dashboard starts without problem even if port 5000 is taken.

This is a problem when I boot my services up: if dashboard happens to take the port first, my other service can’t start.

Is there any way to tell dashboard not to take that port?

2

Port 5000 is for the realtime notifications from the dashboard, its a websocket server.

3

Oh, I see, thank you!
Is it possible to simply set/change that?

4

Unfortunately it’s not yet possible to switch off port 5000.