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Re: YouTube Down

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Post by oedoedxef »

augusto-moura wrote: post #7
oedoedxef wrote: post #6

Microservices in action! Can visit the site, see comments, but can't play videos. Go to twitter, check the latest tweets containing "youtube down", thousands of results coming. Now I know why I used to download all my favorite videos to USB/SSD!

Microservices out of action in this case

Select microservices in action! If AWS/GCP/Azure are taking score, then this isn't an outage because DNS resolves a-ok!

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by jameshe »

sebmellen wrote: post #8

Same here in socal, and look at those DownDetector report numbers[0]. Baseline 30, now almost 200,000 reports. I wonder what could be going on to cause this level of global service degradation. Perhaps related, I uploaded a video earlier today that took nearly 4 hours to process, though it was only ten minutes long. [0]: https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/

Another reference, but the /r/youtube reddit thread[0] for this issue has users reporting globally

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/jsjwzq/youtube_dow...

Re: YouTube Down

#15

Post by penagwin »

I vpn'd around, this appears to be global. While reading something unrelated my video suddenly started playing.

I think it's load balancer related for whatever is serving their videos

EDIT: Once you have a connection you appear to keep it the entire way through (at least it did for me with youtubedl). Something related to connection queueing...

Re: YouTube Down

#16

Post by jedberg »

jameshe wrote: post #10

Seems like just the video player is down - homepage loads with thumbnails, and when you click on a video, everything but the video player renders. What I find interesting is that scrolling through a video still displays closed captions and even the thumbnail preview of the timestamp you're hovering over. Curious if anyone know what causes something like this?

Captions and thumbnails come from a different part of the CDN. Same with Netflix. The videos come from devices dedicated to large files, the captions and thumbnails come from a CDN designed for small files.

Re: YouTube Down

#18

Post by birdyrooster »

Downdetector seems like a great place to advertise. You have a bunch of people who were forced to abandon the provider of whatever type of service that your company may offer. What a great opportunity to show customers your competing product.

Re: YouTube Down

#19

Post by jameshe »

jedberg wrote: post #16
jameshe wrote: post #10

Seems like just the video player is down - homepage loads with thumbnails, and when you click on a video, everything but the video player renders. What I find interesting is that scrolling through a video still displays closed captions and even the thumbnail preview of the timestamp you're hovering over. Curious if anyone know what causes something like this?

Captions and thumbnails come from a different part of the CDN. Same with Netflix. The videos come from devices dedicated to large files, the captions and thumbnails come from a CDN designed for small files.

How fun - same goes with the previews on hover over timestamps then, I guess?

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by jedberg »

jameshe wrote: post #19
jedberg wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Captions and thumbnails come from a different part of the CDN. Same with Netflix. The videos come from devices dedicated to large files, the captions and thumbnails come from a CDN designed for small files.

How fun - same goes with the previews on hover over timestamps then, I guess?

Most likely. Any small file comes from a different CDN than the video.
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