Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by njn » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:38 PM UTC

Good! Keep them down.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by jak92 » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:38 PM UTC

  ... and nothing of value was lost.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by btown » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:39 PM UTC

I've also seen issues uploading images to Whatsapp in the past half hour. I wonder if there's anything to do with the Google Cloud Storage outage that took down Gmail yesterday?

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by ceejayoz » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:40 PM UTC

JakeWesorick wrote: post #4

https://www.facebook.com/platform/api-status/ still returns "Facebook Platform is Healthy", but you can't even load https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ . Why have status pages if they are so susceptible to going down themselves?

I remember an S3 outage a number of years ago where AWS discovered that their status page was hosted on S3. Whoops!

I believe this is why Github's status page is now on its own domain; so a github.com DNS outage won't take it down.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by _t2kx » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:41 PM UTC

btown wrote: post #23

I've also seen issues uploading images to Whatsapp in the past half hour. I wonder if there's anything to do with the Google Cloud Storage outage that took down Gmail yesterday?

Facebook doesn't use GCS (at least they didn't in 2015), they have their own infrastructure/data centers.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by _5659 » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:41 PM UTC

agosnell wrote: post #17

If you use their API and haven't seen it yet, their issue is listed here on their status page: https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/55989644784543...

Looks like the status page is down for me as well.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by frostyj » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:43 PM UTC

BucketSort wrote: post #15

Google and FB having successive outages? Is this just a coincidence or is there some shared infrastructure that would explain this?

^^^ I noticed this too. GCP is under all 50 shades of outages since past few days. Feel I might need to rush back to my house and start digging a bunker

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by _t2kx » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:44 PM UTC

BucketSort wrote: post #15

Google and FB having successive outages? Is this just a coincidence or is there some shared infrastructure that would explain this?

Both companies have their own private data centers/infrastructure.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by arisAlexis » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:44 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #9

So yesterday Google had a major (and out of character) outage across its apps, and today Facebook has a major (and also out of character) outage across its apps. I can't wait to see the RCA for both of these and if they're related.

there are actively people downvoting such comments. I guess that's suspicious too.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by earless1 » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:46 PM UTC

What manner of failure would cause such globally deployed and distributed systems to go down like this? I'm very interested to read up on this when they release details of the failure.