PowerOutage.us incident

Power Outage Systems Inaccessible - Global DNS issue

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PowerOutage.us experienced a notice incident on April 1, 2021 affecting Power Outage Site and Power Outage API, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Apr 01, 2021, 11:32 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 01, 2021, 11:32 PM UTC
Duration
—
Detected by Pingoru
Apr 01, 2021, 11:32 PM UTC

Affected components

Power Outage SitePower Outage API

Update timeline

  1. resolved Apr 01, 2021, 11:32 PM UTC

    A global DNS issue may have resulted in the Power Outage Systems being partially or entirely inaccessible, from 21:30 UTC to about 22:20UTC. This was a global issue effecting all Azure customers, a huge section of the World Wide Web. This also caused the Power Outage Systems to stop updating power outage data. During this event a large number of utility websites where also offline, triggering a failsafe mechanism designed specifically for these situations. Preventing the Power Outage System from being updated with bad data (in this case zero outage counts for the utilities also effected by the global DNS outage.) If you have any questions about this event please reach out to [email protected]