diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/game.tsx b/frontend/src/pages/game.tsx
index b65a0346f90a15812e9d73ffecc16c85ac988006..4158d10c8f10b0c0a8895260b2064fb56fe5c4a6 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/game.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/game.tsx
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ function usePlayer(playerID: string, state?: State): { pState: StatePlayer; pTea
     }, [playerID, state]);
 }
 
-const reconnectAttempts = 5;
+const reconnectAttempts = 2;
 
 function useWS(roomID: string, playerID: string, nickname: string, dead: () => void, onOpen: () => void) {
     const didUnmount = React.useRef(false);
diff --git a/internal/server/metrics.go b/internal/server/metrics.go
index cfd60c6ec9b0c12f9f7d50107fcd63646da039f3..a79ab6d3273160f51bcb01de72496958c43ca011 100644
--- a/internal/server/metrics.go
+++ b/internal/server/metrics.go
@@ -33,4 +33,11 @@ var (
 		Name:      "sent_total",
 		Help:      "Total number of sent messages.",
 	})
+
+	metricHandleErrors = promauto.NewCounter(prometheus.CounterOpts{
+		Namespace: "codies",
+		Subsystem: "codies",
+		Name:      "handle_error_total",
+		Help:      "Total number of handle errors.",
+	})
 )
diff --git a/internal/server/server.go b/internal/server/server.go
index dd96867c633765c3e128fd581a3751ae8d742e5d..fece6614112cab4a8e201579c820f2640cd36e53 100644
--- a/internal/server/server.go
+++ b/internal/server/server.go
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ func (r *Room) HandleConn(playerID uuid.UUID, nickname string, c *websocket.Conn
 			metricReceived.Inc()
 
 			if err := r.handleNote(playerID, &note); err != nil {
+				metricHandleErrors.Inc()
 				log.Println("error handling note:", err)
 				return err
 			}