Wikimedia experienced a major incident on October 24, 2024 affecting Reading and Editing, lasting 3h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
ReadingEditing
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 24, 2024, 11:02 AM UTC
Reading and editing is affected. We are investigating the issue.
- investigating Oct 24, 2024, 11:33 AM UTC
We shifted read traffic to the secondary datacenter, which helped with the overloaded database. We are still investigating the root cause.
- monitoring Oct 24, 2024, 01:49 PM UTC
We have repooled the primary datacenter for read traffic and are monitoring the situation while investigating the root cause.
- monitoring Oct 24, 2024, 01:52 PM UTC
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- resolved Oct 24, 2024, 02:02 PM UTC
Traffic back to baseline, root cause investigation is still ongoing but the incident is resolved.