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

Stephen Wilcox steve.wilcox at ixreach.com
Tue Mar 5 17:03:13 EST 2024


There was definitely a reset of Auth. Seen here in the middle east. Whether
that was intentional eg security patch similar to Google I'm not sure but
it recovered after a few minutes and looks okay since

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 00:17 Aaron Hope via Outages, <outages at outages.org>
wrote:

> GAH! Too many emails about Facebook today! Now I got bit!
>
> Sorry all :)
>
> Aaron
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> *From:* Outages <outages-bounces at outages.org> on behalf of Aaron Hope via
> Outages <outages at outages.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2024 3:14 PM
> *To:* Ross Tajvar <ross at tajvar.io>; Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com>
> *Cc:* outages at outages.org <outages at outages.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [outages] After-Action Report: Facebook/Meta outage
>
> We are not renewing Splunk.  We have migrated to Azure Sentinel for
> logging and monitoring.
>
> Aaron
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> *From:* Outages <outages-bounces at outages.org> on behalf of Jay Ashworth
> via Outages <outages at outages.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2024 2:59 PM
> *To:* Ross Tajvar <ross at tajvar.io>
> *Cc:* outages at outages.org <outages at outages.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [outages] After-Action Report: Facebook/Meta outage
>
> 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
> >> >
> >> > --
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