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Re: Meta outage

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Post by hnfong »

_zoltan_ wrote: post #152
basch wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For both companies? Or is the report of Google auth being down only tied to meta logins, and a misdiagnosis?

Google logged me out of an account and I had trouble logging back in. downdetector also reports Google having issues and friends also had trouble with both.

FWIW for me Google seems relatively stable, but I tried logging into a lesser used gmail account on a lesser used browser, successfully logged in for like 10 seconds, then got logged out.

It's very spooky when supposedly the two companies who probably aren't sharing infrastructure seem to go down at the same time...

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Post by mrweasel »

ykonstant wrote: post #78

And rather than an indication that it is not working, I was just told to login again; since the attempts were unsuccessful, I was led to reset my password. Now I have no clue if the password has been reset properly or an old one is used, or login with google is used, or if I will continue to be logged out after they fix stuff. If your service is down, please say "my service is down".

One weekend I was on-call, we had a system we ran for the government, but authentication was handled by another government owned service, hosted and managed by another company.

A user called in early Saturday evening, saying that the system was down. After a bit of debugging, wondering where our alerting had failed, I concluded that the system was perfectly fine, but the authentication service had been returning 500 errors for around an hour. When I called the user back he made a comment that rather changed how I think about monitoring and systems. He says: Well, from my point of view it really doesn't matter which part isn't working, it's just down.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by unavida »

my heart rate was pounding when I couldn't login and couldn't reset my password just now. Seeing this HN post made me come back down to normal. I'm now going to move away from FB, Google, and all other major tech companies I rely on.
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