Outage in Wikipedia

Database issues in the Dallas TX datacenter

Resolved Major
October 24, 2024 - Started about 2 months ago - Lasted about 3 hours
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Outage Details

Reading and editing is affected. We are investigating the issue.
Components affected
Wikipedia Editing Wikipedia Reading
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED about 2 months ago - at 10/24/2024 02:02PM

Traffic back to baseline, root cause investigation is still ongoing but the incident is resolved.

INVESTIGATING about 2 months ago - at 10/24/2024 11:33AM

We shifted read traffic to the secondary datacenter, which helped with the overloaded database. We are still investigating the root cause.

INVESTIGATING about 2 months ago - at 10/24/2024 11:02AM

Reading and editing is affected. We are investigating the issue.

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