microsoft / microsoft/vscode

Remote Tunnel Access keeps failing

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Description

### Description

Every 24 hours or so, the remote tunnel service fails, so I have to log in to the VM manually and restart VSCode to bring the server up again. Can we make it more rebust please?

### Issue Details

Item|Value
---|---
Issue Category|Bug
Target|Visual Studio Code - Insiders
VS Code Version|Code - Insiders 1.136.0-insider (a29f231dfa3b4a0a2d0d433bbc6a6171eca52d0f, 2026-08-26T20:07:07-07:00)
OS Version|Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

System Info

Item|Value
---|---
VS Code Version|Code - Insiders 1.136.0-insider (a29f231dfa3b4a0a2d0d433bbc6a6171eca52d0f, 2026-08-26T20:07:07-07:00)
OS Version|Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
CPUs|AMD EPYC 74F3 24-Core Processor (12 x 3194)
GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
GPU0: VENDOR= 0x10de, DEVICE=0x2236 [NVIDIA A10-8Q], DRIVER_VENDOR=NVIDIA, DRIVER_VERSION=32.0.15.9597 *ACTIVE*
GPU1: VENDOR= 0x10de, DEVICE=0x2236 [NVIDIA A10-8Q], DRIVER_VERSION=32.0.15.9597
GPU2: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.8875
GPU3: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.8875
Machine model name:
Machine model version:
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
trees_in_viz: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
webgl: enabled
webgpu: enabled
webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)|
Memory (System)|109.95GB (89.24GB free)
Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id e90a878b-6e87-40eb-9eae-1fd7af3c3970
Screen Reader|no
VM|0%
User Agent|Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code-Insiders/1.136.0-insider Chrome/148.0.7778.280 Electron/42.8.1 Safari/537.36
Installation pure|true

Extensions (6)

Name|Identifier|Author|Version
---|---|---|---
TestMate C++|matepek.vscode-catch2-test-adapter|matepek|4.26.0
Agency|microsoft.agency|Microsoft|1.0.260515001
CMake Tools|ms-vscode.cmake-tools|ms-vscode|1.24.34
C/C++|ms-vscode.cpptools|ms-vscode|1.34.0
Remote Explorer|ms-vscode.remote-explorer|ms-vscode|0.5.0
Remote - Tunnels|ms-vscode.remote-server|ms-vscode|1.5.3

Theme extensions: 9

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### Attachments

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Contributor guide

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Research direction

No source files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reproducing the reported Remote - Tunnels failure after roughly 24 hours on the listed Windows and VS Code Insiders versions, then identify the relevant failure logs and define success as restoring the tunnel without manually restarting VS Code.

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Assessment

Tech stack
electron, typescript
Domain
cloud, infrastructure
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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