Outage in Gradle

Unusually heavy traffic on the plugin portal

Resolved Minor
February 01, 2024 - Started 3 months ago - Lasted about 6 hours
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Outage Details

We are currently investigating the issue. Traffic against the plugin portal has increased heavily this week, with a serious uptake in traffic from user agents identifying as Renovate and some specific source IPs having increased traffic from nearly nothing to multiple millions requests an hour. We have enforced rate limiting for the worst offender.
Components affected
Gradle Repository Gradle User Interface
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED 3 months ago - at 02/01/2024 04:41PM

This incident has been resolved.

We will continue to monitor the system in the coming days.

MONITORING 3 months ago - at 02/01/2024 12:53PM

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

INVESTIGATING 3 months ago - at 02/01/2024 10:16AM

We are currently investigating the issue.

Traffic against the plugin portal has increased heavily this week, with a serious uptake in traffic from user agents identifying as Renovate and some specific source IPs having increased traffic from nearly nothing to multiple millions requests an hour.

We have enforced rate limiting for the worst offender.

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