Questions tagged [outage]
An outage is when the Stack Exchange network, or certain features of the network, is not available to its users due to the server being down. An outage can be planned (e.g. maintenance), or unplanned (e.g. DDoS attack).
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GIS Stack Exchange - Login Unavailable (29 / 30 April 2024) [closed]
I have been trying to access the GIS Stack Exchange since yesterday 29 April 2024. When clicking the "Login" icon, I am directed to a page where I am told that Logging in is not available. ...
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Incident update and uptime reporting
There has been some confusion during some recent incidents that we’d like to address. Some of the confusion stems from our status pages/banners that we’re going to update. The other point of ...
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Stack status incorrect during yesterday’s maintenance/outage [duplicate]
Stack Exchange was in read-only mode all yesterday afternoon Sydney time, at least between 2PM and 6PM AEDT October 30, which would be between 3AM and 7AM UTC October 30. The message I received when ...
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Stack Exchange Network Outage – June 15, 2023
TL;DR: On June 15, 2023, starting at 13:52 UTC, an integer overflow in our database caused the SE Network sites to become unavailable for all users.
Timeline:
On June 15, 2023, at 13:52 UTC, we ...
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SciFi.se down - Error 500? [duplicate]
I was trying to look at a question on SciFi.SE based on a web search and it's coming up with Error 500. When I went to the main page for SciFi, it also came up error 500. This is the only one of the ...
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All question migrations are currently broken across the entire SE network
All migrations are currently broken all across the network. I first noticed this on ELU.
What's happening is they get closed for being offtopic as belonging on another site, then locked, but then ...
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What happened to old postmortems on stackstatus.net?
In 2016, Stack Overflow had an outage due to catastrophic backtracking in a regex. There's a tweet about the outage, which links to the postmortem on stackstatus.net. That link is now dead. I've tried ...
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Is the Global Status Page broken?
There was just an outage of at least a portion, if not the whole, SE network. I went to the Global Status Page to see what was going on and it was identified as an Outage. Now, there's no reference to ...
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Periodic outages again?
Many of the Stack Exchange sites have been going off and on such as Worldbuilding, Medical Sciences, Psychology & Neuroscience and Writing over the last couple of hours for me. The maintenance ...
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Stack Overflow Offline - No announcement [duplicate]
Stack Overflow is currently offline; it was around half an hour ago too but came back for a short while (but it was showing very slow response times).
The "We are currently offline for ...
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Some sites are offline, but no blog or Twitter information. Is all OK?
Worldbuilding and Biology, for example, have been offline for about 15 minutes, Science Fiction & Fantasy and Psychology & Neuroscience for somewhat less. Meta disappeared for a bit, but it is ...
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Is there a policy for extending bounty periods in cases where there is SE network outage or maintenance? [duplicate]
If I start a bounty, I expect that bounty to last 7 days unless I award the bounty before the time of expiry. What happens if there is Stack Exchange Network maintenance or outage during that time? Is ...
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Did chat just die?
I can't seem to load anything on https://chat.stackexchange.com (main page, transcripts, user pages, rooms).
I also checked on https://isup.me and it said it was down too.
Anyone else getting this, ...
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Chat and the API are slow or appear to be completely down
Me and several others are experiencing periodic chat outages. Chat is currently entirely dead for me on all three domains. The API is also significantly slowing down the main site. Can barely flag ...
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Stack Exchange is intermittently failing at random areas
Stack Exchange is intermittently failing at random areas.
Some issues experienced by me and others:
I got logged out and couldn't log in
Stack Overflow intermittently goes down saying it's ...
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Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance [closed]
Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance but it's not reported on Twitter
Update: The outage affected Meta as well as other sites, but fortunately it was quickly solved.
Another update:
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Allow direct IP access
The recent DNS outage caused me to lose access to the Stack Exchange
network. Being a good little programmer, I tried to work around the problem:
$ wget --spider stackoverflow.com
Connecting to ...
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Is chat on this site down? [closed]
For some reason chat is showing a Runtime Error everytime I try to open it. The message displayed reads:
Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An exception occurred while ...
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Chat rooms are not receiving question feeds
There seems to be something preventing question feeds from appearing in chat.
For one example, the Code Review chat room's feed subscriptions include Recent Questions - Code Review Stack Exchange and ...
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CloudFlare 522 errors on some SE sites at the moment
The picture below says it all :)
Currently noticed on:
StackOverflow
Travel.SE
Webmasters.SE
It's a little intermittent as well.
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Ray ID: 2aef4188a0151d80
2016-06-06 22:21:27 UTC
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Missing outage postmortem for 2015-05-05
The Stack Exchange network experienced a network-wide outage on May 5 (Note: due to timezone differences dates may be off by one):
StackExchange Status @StackStatus May 5
We are investigating ...
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Can @StackStatus tweets be posted to StackStatus.net automatically?
While it sounds crazy, some of us do not actually have twitter accounts and really do not use twitter at all, so we don't see tweets from @StackStatus. This is especially true for users behind ...
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Back up JSFiddle links in questions
The concept of adding JSFiddle integration has been discussed in: Custom jsFiddle for Stack Overflow
While adding it sounds like a lot of work, at any moment JSFiddle could change its terms of ...
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Accounts are temporarily unavailable: add a link to a notice explanation
I have read previous questions about the message being self-sufficient... but it really isn't. Even moderators are in the dark, and the message given reads like a generic error.
Suggestion: Add a ...
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Investigation results of Dec 12 2012 outage
https://stackstatus.tumblr.com/post/37789095378/outage-dec-12th-2012
Even though the primary load balancer appears to be fine after the
kick, we’re not trusting it just yet and have shifted it ...
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Lost about 1% reputation after data center migration
After the planned outage because of the migration to the new data center last night my stack overflow reputation dropped from 4280 to 4245:
After a browser refresh:
The history doesn't show any ...
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Stackoverflow.com is down? [closed]
Seems like stackoverflow.com and other Q&A sites are down.
The following is displayed:
Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance
But is it really just maintenance or is it an outage?
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I keep getting "504 Gateway Time-out" on Stack Overflow for anything except the home page
This started yesterday morning
(Obviously, I have no problem with meta StackOverflow; I have problems just with Stack Overflow.)
It also appears that not many other users have the problem because ...
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Votes registered but not reflected in reputation after outage
On the weekend of your recent outage I had received a couple of upvotes for my answers (for example, this one: I'm looking for internationalization verification tool ) but my reputation points for the ...
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Consecutive Days bug/glitch
Up until a few hours ago (at least I presume that's the case!), I had somewhere around the mid to late 90s in "consecutive days" showing, but as of just now Stackoverflow is showing:
Is this a (...
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Stack Overflow Outage [closed]
As a result of power loss at the PEAK data center as posted on our blog our SQL instance was shut down unexpectedly. SQL Server was unable to recover using dbcc checkdb and we decided to restore from ...
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Slowdown on SO and meta? [closed]
Is anyone else seeing SO and meta responding very slowly when clicking links, etc? I thought perhaps it was issues with my ISP at home, but I'm seeing the same sort of problems at work. Periodically ...
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What is Stack Exchange's resiliency/availability story?
How resilient is Stack Exchange to outages? Is there an automatic failover process?
The Stack Exchange websites were down for maintenance for two hours yesterday (5pm to 7pm PST on a Saturday).
Here'...
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