Outage in mastodon.social

DDoS attack

Resolved Minor
March 06, 2023 - Started over 2 years ago - Lasted about 6 hours

Incident Report

We implemented a fix and we expect the queues to catch up soon.
Components affected
mastodon.social Website & API mastodon.social Background queues mastodon.social Media storage mastodon.social Streaming API

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
MONITORING over 2 years ago - at 03/06/2023 07:39PM

We implemented a fix and we expect the queues to catch up soon.

IDENTIFIED over 2 years ago - at 03/06/2023 06:53PM

We're experiencing additional issues with background queues. Home feeds, notifications, and other things that involve asynchronous processing may be severely delayed. We're working on mitigating this issue.

IDENTIFIED over 2 years ago - at 03/06/2023 04:49PM

We are under a massive DDoS attack. We are working together with Fastly to mitigate it.

INVESTIGATING over 2 years ago - at 03/06/2023 04:21PM

mastodon.social is currently unavailable.

We are currently investigating this incident.

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