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Re: Auth0 Down

#22

What alternatives to Auth0 are worth looking into? Between this P0 (with no ability to check the status or file a ticket) and the Okta acquisition, I hesitate to continue using Auth0 as the default when spinning up new web apps.

AWS Cognito works but it is a far cry from how usable Auth0 is.

Every year or so I check back in to see if Cognito has gotten any better. I hasn't. I'd love to use it, but some very basic things are just not done correctly. Yan Cui has a nice writeup on Cognito [0] that touches on some of its shortcomings.

[0]: https://theburningmonk.com/2021/03/the-case-for-and-against-...

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#25
We managed to get a reply from a C level. All we could get out of them was "something to do with our DB, but we don't know the root yet. Our fail-over process didn't work. This will never happen again".

Also, it only took them 2 and a half hours to admit it was their entire system instead of "a small subset of users" lol.

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#26

Every SaaS application has probably blown past its SLA thanks to this. Not sure if anyone will trust this site anymore.

They're fast approaching the 95% availability mark for the month! Enterprise customers are already guaranteed 50% return on fees, I suspect they'll be giving out MUCH more than that.

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#27

Wow. The whole point of paying someone like Auth0 is to _not_ have this happen. This is basically their whole point, is it not? Really looking forward to the post-mortem, but I won't ever forget just how down this thing is right now.

Yup, exactly. We're actively working on ripping them out of our software, this is ridiculous. I knew we should have taken the time to make a fail safe...sigh...

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#28
post #17

This is crazy timing -- my co-host and I just released a Podcast episode yesterday sifting through the details about the Auth0 database-related outage from 2018 ( https://downtimeproject.com/ ). I'll be curious to see how much overlap or not there is with that previous outage. They wrote up a nice post-mortem back then, so hopefully we'll get another one this time.

Do you have a link to that previous post-mortem?

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#29
their dev is up, but prod is down for several hours mid day, INSANE. My users are asking me to have a failover... hard to explain they ARE the redundancy plan! Anyboy else have ideas here on how to explain to users?
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