Slack is down • Hacker News Board

Re: Slack is down

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Post by vehemenz » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:36 PM UTC

loginatnine wrote: post #27

vehemenz wrote: post #23

I was seeing issues about 10 minutes before their system status page was updated. I'm surprised they don't have automatic monitoring of some kind.

Status pages are probably manually updated. You don't want a false positive/bug in your monitoring to affect your public metrics.

Fair enough. Though I'm not sure how I'd feel about the whole world knowing about my service's outage before I do.

Re: Slack is down

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Post by chrisseaton » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:37 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #15

tempest_ wrote: post #5

Who knew Salesforce could work this fast :p

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It's snarky - snarky comments are against the guidelines here.

Re: Slack is down

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Post by Topgamer7 » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:37 PM UTC

gavnewalkar wrote: post #4

My slack (desktop + mobile) has been down for the past 30~ mins. Strangely I can still receive messages/alerts on my phone.

I too am in this same boat.

Re: Slack is down

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Post by postalrat » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:37 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #11

schoolornot wrote: post #8

How many more outages until all trust is eroded and competing services differentiate themselves on the basis of uptime?

I wouldn't be shocked if businesses saw increased productivity during these.

I'm sitting here not sure if I should deploy code since most communication with the rest of my team has been cut off.

Re: Slack is down

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Post by partiallypro » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:37 PM UTC

seibelj wrote: post #18

Down Detector showed a lot of different services suffering downtime at the same time https://downdetector.com/ I wonder if it's an AWS region issue

I have stopped using Down Detector as an accurate measure because a lot of "outages" are just people having issues with a service unrelated to the service they are reporting as down. Ex: AT&T outage in Nashville caused people to report Xbox Live as down, when it wasn't actually down, etc.

Re: Slack is down

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Post by djtriptych » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:37 PM UTC

Could it be the obvious? Everyone signing on / loading slack clients at the same time?

Re: Slack is down

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Post by ketamine__ » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:37 PM UTC

Maybe we can chat with coworkers here. Is there a Carl around?

Re: Slack is down

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Post by staticelf » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:38 PM UTC

seibelj wrote: post #18

Down Detector showed a lot of different services suffering downtime at the same time https://downdetector.com/ I wonder if it's an AWS region issue

I have issues reaching a lot of sites, especially american. Both downdetector, hacker news and others loads extremely slow or not at all. Downdetector had a bunch of failed resources for me..

Re: Slack is down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:38 PM UTC

vehemenz wrote: post #23

I was seeing issues about 10 minutes before their system status page was updated. I'm surprised they don't have automatic monitoring of some kind.

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Re: Slack is down

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Post by btbuildem » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:38 PM UTC

tempest_ wrote: post #5

Who knew Salesforce could work this fast :p

We were just joking with the work mates -- SF bought Tableau 2 years ago and haven't ruined it yet, only because it takes them that long to do anything ;)