Wikimedia incident

Database issues

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Wikimedia experienced a critical incident on August 14, 2024 affecting Editing, lasting 3h 55m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 14, 2024, 09:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 15, 2024, 12:55 AM UTC
Duration
3h 55m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 14, 2024, 09:00 PM UTC

Affected components

Editing

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 14, 2024, 09:00 PM UTC

    We're currently experiencing a recurrence of lag on our MariaDB S4 primary instance.

  2. monitoring Aug 14, 2024, 09:17 PM UTC

    We are monitoring the situation and continuing to investigate the root cause of brief recurring lag spikes.

  3. resolved Aug 15, 2024, 12:55 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved. We're continuing to address the root cause to reduce future recurrences.