Wikimedia experienced a critical incident on August 14, 2024 affecting Editing, lasting 6h 17m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Editing
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 14, 2024, 02:22 PM UTC
We're currently experiencing a recurrence of lag on our MariaDB S4 primary instance. We are investigating to determine the root cause.
- monitoring Aug 14, 2024, 02:40 PM UTC
We have mitigated the issue, but we are still searching for the root cause. We are monitoring the situation. Short recurrences are likely.
- resolved Aug 14, 2024, 08:39 PM UTC
We've made changes to reduce primary database load, and things are stable for now.