Keepalive

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-003157",
  "term": "Keepalive",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A message sent periodically between two network devices to confirm that the connection between them is still active and functional. If a series of keepalive messages are not received, the connection is considered broken and resources can be released. This mechanism prevents stale connections from consuming network resources indefinitely.",
  "subject": "Energy and utilities",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Keepalive",
    "es": "keepalive",
    "fr": "keepalive"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/keepalive/"
}