What Went Down: Week Ending April 24, 2023

Newsworthy: Southwest Airlines had a number of delayed flights due to an undisclosed cloud dependency outage – or “data connection issues resulting from a firewall failure.” Flo by Moen – a “smart water monitor and shutoff” system was down and customers were left without water due to a cloud outage. Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime While […]
What Went Down: Week Ending April 10, 2023

Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime While these outages didn’t make the news, these issues caught by Metrist may have affected your company’s app and operations. The most significant of these were: Several Azure services (including Blob Storage, Virtual Machines, Cosmos DB, SQL, AKS): experienced multiple outages ranging from 6 minutes to 8 hours and 4 minutes. Hotjar […]
What Went Down: Week Ending April 3, 2023

Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime While these outages didn’t make the news, these issues caught by Metrist may have affected your company’s app and operations. Want to know if or how you were impacted? Set up Metrist to monitor your own cloud resources by scheduling a demo. Azure Azure SQL had a number of 5-25 […]
What Went Down: Week Ending March 13, 2023

Newsworthy: Datadog had a major outage for 24 hours and 20 minutes on 8th March. You can learn more about the outage, how we monitored it, and how Metrist can be the Datadog for your Datadog here. And you can check out a demo of our Datadog monitor here. Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime While […]
What Went Down: Week Ending March 6th, 2023

Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime While these outages didn’t make the news, these issues caught by Metrist may have affected your company’s app and operations. AWS AWS RDS (MySQL). On 27th February, CreateInstance was not responding from US East 1 for 40 minutes. Azure Azure AKS. On 28th February, CreateCluster was not responding from Azure […]
What Went Down: Week Ending February 27, 2023

Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime While these outages didn’t make the news, these issues caught by Metrist may have affected your company’s app and operations. Azure Azure CDN’s PurgeFile was not responding from Azure Central US for 25 minutes on the 24th GCP GCP Compute Engine’s DeleteInstance is not responding from GCP US Central 1 […]
What Went Down: Week Ending February 20, 2023

Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime Check out these outages that may not have made the news, but these issues caught by Metrist may have affected your company’s app and operations. Azure Azure SQL experienced an incident on the 14th in which CreateSqlServer was not responding from Azure West US for 1 hour, and Azure Blob Storage experienced […]
What Went Down: Week Ending January 13, 2023

Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime While these outages didn’t make the news, these issues caught by Metrist may have affected your company’s app and operations. AWS AWS EC2 had issues Running instances from US East 1 for 13 minutes on the 6th. AWS Route53 was unable to Create DNS Record from US West 1 for 11 […]
What Went Down: Week Ending February 6th, 2023

Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime While these outages didn’t make the news, these issues caught by Metrist may have affected your company’s app and operations. The biggest incidents of the week belonged to Azure CDN and New Relic which occurred over the 4th and 5th. AWS AWS RDS. CreateInstance was was not responding from CA Central […]
What Went Down: Week Ending January 30, 2023

Newsworthy: Probably the most notable outage of the week (if not month) was Microsoft’s, which had a major outage with Azure that lasted from 07:05 UTC to 09:45 UTC (2hrs, 40mins) on the 25th. This outage also impacted Teams, Office365, NPM,Github, and several other apps that use Azure as a cloud dependency. You can see […]