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End user reported "Error: 503, Backend fetch failed" contacting an unspecified Beta Cluster hosted wiki
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Description

I cannot currently access the beta cluster due to the above error. I just noticed this happening now.

Event Timeline

bd808 renamed this task from Error: 503, Backend fetch failed to End user reported "Error: 503, Backend fetch failed" contacting an unspecified Beta Cluster hosted wiki.Jul 2 2025, 3:31 PM
bd808 changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Bug Report".

https://meta.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page and https://simple.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page are currently responding to my requests.

I am not seeing any automated monitoring alerts related to Beta Cluster around the time of this report.

There are a number of connection errors logged today by the trafficserver instance on deployment-cache-text08. I haven't ever monitored this log stream before to have a good instinct about what is "normal".

There was a big spike in load on deployment-mediawiki14 from about 13:10 to 13:40 and other smaller spiked following. Load was climbing around the time this bug report was filed.

Screenshot 2025-07-02 at 09.46.13.png (2,070×1,472 px, 461 KB)

root@deployment-cache-text08:/var/log/trafficserver# grep '20250702' error.log | cut -c 10-12 | uniq -c
      8 00h
     23 01h
    282 02h
     29 03h
     58 04h
     20 05h
     17 06h
     16 07h
    359 08h
     70 09h
   2088 10h
    154 11h
   2093 12h
  15031 13h
  15637 14h
      9 15h
root@deployment-cache-text08:/var/log/trafficserver# grep '20250702.14h' error.log | cut -d\  -f1 | cut -d. -f2 | cut -c 4-6 | uniq -c
    815 00m
    598 01m
    323 02m
    635 03m
    536 04m
    759 05m
    755 06m
    780 07m
    712 08m
    611 09m
    603 10m
    492 11m
     29 12m
     24 13m
    163 14m
    366 15m
    225 16m
      3 17m
      1 18m
      3 20m
      3 21m
      1 22m
      3 23m
      4 24m
     25 25m
    210 26m
    551 27m
    442 28m
    579 29m
    653 30m
    310 31m
    477 32m
    351 33m
    219 34m
    324 35m
    332 36m
    285 37m
     34 38m
     28 39m
      1 40m
      4 42m
      5 43m
      6 44m
     27 45m
    201 46m
    634 47m
    704 48m
    583 49m
    208 50m
bd808 added a parent task: Restricted Task.Jul 2 2025, 3:58 PM

I don't think there is much we can do at this point other than being aware this happened.