Outage in Substack

Substack is experiencing a lot of traffic, impacting overall site performance.

Resolved Minor
November 16, 2022 - Started almost 3 years ago - Lasted about 1 hour
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Outage Details

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RESOLVED almost 3 years ago - at 11/16/2022 02:10AM

Substack's homepage is no longer experiencing downtime, and we are monitoring for further interruptions. We apologize for any inconvenience.

MONITORING almost 3 years ago - at 11/16/2022 01:57AM

We are monitoring traffic to Substack.

IDENTIFIED almost 3 years ago - at 11/16/2022 01:49AM

A large bot traffic hit one of our publications, cloudflare took the brunt of the traffic but enough got through to slow our servers. Bot traffic is going down and we are updating our firewall rules.

INVESTIGATING almost 3 years ago - at 11/16/2022 01:25AM

We are currently investigating this issue.

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