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status.wikimedia.org showing all lights green during major outage
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We had a significant outage of multiple wikis yet our https://status.wikimedia.org was showing 100% green on all services...

That seems illogical to me. What kind of check are we missing here ?

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TheDJ triaged this task as Medium priority.May 24 2018, 8:39 PM
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I assume that site just hits varnish on some likely heavily-cached pages?

TheDJ added a comment.May 24 2018, 8:40 PM

Status also has checks for "UNCACHED", so...

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CommunityTechBot renamed this task from xbcaaaaaaa to status.wikimedia.org showing all lights green during major outage.Jul 2 2018, 4:27 AM
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Reedy added a parent task: T199816: Sunset Watchmouse's status.wikimedia.org.Jul 20 2018, 3:46 PM
Reedy mentioned this in T199816: Sunset Watchmouse's status.wikimedia.org.
• Imarlier subscribed.Jul 20 2018, 3:56 PM

@TheDJ Guessing this was obvious from the parent task that Reedy added, but the short story is that the existing status.wikimedia.org page is effectively unmaintained (and has been for a while). We're beginning the process of replacing it, and "actually shows outages when outages happen" is by far the most basic requirement for the replacement.

Nemo_bis subscribed.Jul 20 2018, 4:01 PM

status.wikimedia.org has indeed no usefulness whatsoever: #wikimedia-tech on Freenode is our only real venue to report system status. The larger issue has been discussed at T22079.

fgiunchedi closed this task as Invalid.Jul 26 2018, 10:43 AM
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