Outage in Gradle

Unusually heavy traffic on the plugin portal

Resolved Minor

February 01, 2024 - Started about 2 years ago - Lasted about 6 hours
Official incident page

Incident Report

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 User Interface Gradle Repository

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

RESOLVED about 2 years ago - at 02/01/2024 04:41PM

This incident has been resolved.

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

MONITORING about 2 years ago - at 02/01/2024 12:53PM

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

INVESTIGATING about 2 years 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.

Latest Gradle outages

Plugin portal unreachable due to Cloudflare having issues - 2 months ago

Gradle distribution downloads are failing - 6 months ago

Plugin portal is down - 10 months ago

Plugin portal slow or partially unresponsive - over 1 year ago

Plugin portal slow or partially unresponsive - about 2 years ago

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