The last error message on their credit cards endpoint reads «This API method has been temporarily disabled due to exceptionally high traffic». It might be a DDoS attack.
Stripe's API was down again
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#33It looks like it's up again for me.
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#34It looks like it's up again for me.
I've had transactions getting through every once in a while but most are not.
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#35Kind of incredible that this is the first time I remember Stripe being down in a long, long time. Serious kudos to their team and hope they get this resolved soon :)
I've seen a lot of comments like this on HN since earlier today regarding the Stripe API downtime. It's very positive and I'm glad to see it in response to an event that usually garners frustration.
Never used Stripe's API myself, but it sounds like they are vastly reliable beyond these blips.
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#36Ran into this one in the wild when it happened, before stripe status had even tweeted about it. I was trying to order doordash and got a "Could not deserialize JSON object" error when adding a credit card. Hope this is fixed soon, the girlfriend and I are very hungry :(
Edit: update if anyone cared, API seems back up and we have ordered food! :)
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#37The last error message on their credit cards endpoint reads «This API method has been temporarily disabled due to exceptionally high traffic». It might be a DDoS attack.
Ya - I'm seeing the same thing on the customer endpoint.
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#38It would be great if Stripe would offer an RSS feed for status updates in addition to twitter posts. A lot of other services have one and it's very convenient to subscribe to in Slack for updates. At my current company, for example, we have a #third-party-outages channel which we have all available third party services (GitHub, NPM, CircleCI, Slack [yes, it's meta], HackerOne, etc.) status page RSS feed notify in cas…
It wouldn't be perfect, but there are tons of services that can generate an RSS feed for a specific twitter user. It looks like @stripestatus only tweets when there's actually an issue (aside from updates on current issues)
Re: Stripe's API was down again
#39The last error message on their credit cards endpoint reads «This API method has been temporarily disabled due to exceptionally high traffic». It might be a DDoS attack.
We're investigating what happened, but we know this wasn't a DDoS attack.
Re: Stripe's API was down again
#40It would be great if Stripe would offer an RSS feed for status updates in addition to twitter posts. A lot of other services have one and it's very convenient to subscribe to in Slack for updates. At my current company, for example, we have a #third-party-outages channel which we have all available third party services (GitHub, NPM, CircleCI, Slack [yes, it's meta], HackerOne, etc.) status page RSS feed notify in cas…
I didn’t realize you could use slack as an rss client