Why is Obsidian connecting periodically to certain domains other than to check for updates?

[dandv]

My firewall shows random HTTPS connections from Obsidian every few minutes to the following domains, while it’s just sitting in the background (haven’t even switched to the app in more than 5 minutes). What are these for?

• releases.obsidian.md - this one makes sense
• a.nel.cloudflare.com - every 5 minutes, what is this?
• raw.githubusercontent.com - probably fetching some resource?

[DiCaver]

a.nel.cloudflare.com is part of Cloudflare’s Network Error Logging (NEL). Obsidian (or an underlying Electron component) may be using it for network health monitoring. Some other Electron-based apps (like VS Code) also do this.

I am not defending them just what I know from another part of my daily work.

Cheers, Marko

[WhiteNoise]

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