diff --git a/src/metrics/index.ts b/src/metrics/index.ts
index 08d15242..2893f9bf 100644
--- a/src/metrics/index.ts
+++ b/src/metrics/index.ts
@@ -357,4 +357,9 @@ export const metrics = new Metrics(() => ({
     help: 'The number of addresses in PoR request input parameters',
     labelNames: ['feed_id'] as const,
   }),
+  wsConnectionFailoverCount: new client.Gauge({
+    name: 'ws_connection_failover_count',
+    help: 'The number of consecutive connection issues (unresponsive/no data, abnormal closures), used to trigger URL failover. Resets to 0 when data flows successfully.',
+    labelNames: ['transport_name'] as const,
+  }),
 }))
diff --git a/src/transports/websocket.ts b/src/transports/websocket.ts
index eafb3077..8de94291 100644
--- a/src/transports/websocket.ts
+++ b/src/transports/websocket.ts
@@ -414,9 +414,10 @@ export class WebSocketTransport<
     // to determine minimum TTL of an open connection given no explicit connection errors.
     if (connectionUnresponsive) {
       this.streamHandlerInvocationsWithNoConnection += 1
-      logger.trace(
-        `The connection is unresponsive, incremented streamHandlerIterationsWithNoConnection = ${this.streamHandlerInvocationsWithNoConnection}`,
+      logger.info(
+        `The connection is unresponsive (last message ${timeSinceLastMessage}ms ago), incremented failover counter to ${this.streamHandlerInvocationsWithNoConnection}`,
       )
+      metrics.get('wsConnectionFailoverCount').labels({ transport_name: this.name }).set(this.streamHandlerInvocationsWithNoConnection)
     }
 
     // We want to check if the URL we calculate is different from the one currently connected.
@@ -431,9 +432,10 @@ export class WebSocketTransport<
     // Check if we should close the current connection
     if (!connectionClosed && (urlChanged || connectionUnresponsive)) {
       if (urlChanged) {
+        logger.info('Websocket URL has changed, closing connection to reconnect...')
         censorLogs(() =>
           logger.debug(
-            `Websocket url has changed from ${this.currentUrl} to ${urlFromConfig}, closing connection...`,
+            `Websocket URL changed from ${this.currentUrl} to ${urlFromConfig}`,
           ),
         )
       } else {