[outages] After-Action Report: Facebook/Meta outage

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Tue Mar 5 14:59:51 EST 2024


Yeah, but I shouldn't have gotten bitten. I'm supposed to be holding myself to a higher standard, as a moderator of this particular group.

On March 5, 2024 2:58:00 PM EST, Ross Tajvar <ross at tajvar.io> wrote:
>Indeed - this happens every time facebook has a major outage, because they
>stopped putting out posts explaining what happened and because people tend
>not to look too closely before spreading links that look plausible.
>
>On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 2:56 PM Jay R. Ashworth via Outages <
>outages at outages.org> wrote:
>
>> Well, when I pulled up the link from Ross's mobile version, it had comments
>> under it from 10/22; if those people didn't know where to go either... :-}
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Damian Menscher" <damian at google.com>
>> > To: "jra" <jra at baylink.com>
>> > Cc: outages at outages.org
>> > Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 2:16:33 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [outages] After-Action Report: Facebook/Meta outage
>>
>> > It clearly *is* from 2010:
>> >
>> https://engineering.fb.com/2010/09/23/uncategorized/more-details-on-today-s-o
>> >
>> > Damian
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 11:13 AM Jay R. Ashworth via Outages <
>> > outages at outages.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Well, it seems equivocal whether that's about *this* outage
>> >> rather than an earlier one -- though it's clearly not from 2010.
>> >>
>> >> More to follow.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> -- jra
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> > From: "Jay R. Ashworth via Outages" <outages at outages.org>
>> >> > To: outages at outages.org
>> >> > Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 1:57:24 PM
>> >> > Subject: [outages] After-Action Report: Facebook/Meta outage
>> >>
>> >> > [ I can't set the header from Zimbra, but please, Reply-To: -discuss ]
>> >> >
>> >> > Here's a link to FB's AAR about this morning's 70-minuteish outage.
>> >> >
>> >> > It's been pointed out to me that this affected other services as
>> well, if
>> >> > they are an OAuth client, and you chose to use FB's OAuth service to
>> >> create
>> >> > your account there.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A10158791436142200%7D&path=%2Fnotes%2Fnote%2F
>> >> >
>> >> > [ Hat-tip: Jorge Amodio ]
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers,
>> >> > -- jra
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Jay R. Ashworth                  Baylink
>> >> jra at baylink.com
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