Incidents/2022-03-01 ulsfo network
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Summary
| Incident ID | 2022-03-01 ulsfo network | Start | 2022-03-01 22:35:25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Task | End | 2022-03-01 22:55:00 | |
| People paged | Responder count | 4 | |
| Coordinators | jhathaway | Affected metrics/SLOs | |
| Impact | For 20 minutes, clients normally routed to Ulsfo were unable to reach any of our projects. This includes New Zealand, parts of Canada, and the United States west coast. | ||
Multiple of our redundant network providers for the San Francisco datacenter simultaneously experienced connectivity loss. After 20 minutes, clients were rerouted to other datacenters.
Documentation:
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/dns/+/767250/
- https://www.wikimediastatus.net/incidents/2rp6n2cpym3m
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P21629#102776
Actionables
- T303219 Integrate DNS depools with Etcd and automate/remove the need for writing a Git commit.
- Can we increase fiber redundancy?
Scorecard
| Question | Score | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| People | Were the people responding to this incident sufficiently different than the previous five incidents? (score 1 for yes, 0 for no) | 0 | Info not logged |
| Were the people who responded prepared enough to respond effectively (score 1 for yes, 0 for no) | 1 | ||
| Were more than 5 people paged? (score 0 for yes, 1 for no) | 0 | ||
| Were pages routed to the correct sub-team(s)? (score 1 for yes, 0 for no) | 0 | ||
| Were pages routed to online (business hours) engineers? (score 1 for yes, 0 if people were paged after business hours) | 0 | ||
| Process | Was the incident status section actively updated during the incident? (score 1 for yes, 0 for no) | 1 | |
| Was the public status page updated? (score 1 for yes, 0 for no) | 1 | ||
| Is there a phabricator task for the incident? (score 1 for yes, 0 for no) | 0 | ||
| Are the documented action items assigned? (score 1 for yes, 0 for no) | 0 | one appears to be an open question | |
| Is this a repeat of an earlier incident (score 0 for yes, 1 for no) | 0 | ||
| Tooling | Was there, before the incident occurred, open tasks that would prevent this incident / make mitigation easier if implemented? (score 0 for yes, 1 for no) | 0 | |
| Were the people responding able to communicate effectively during the incident with the existing tooling? (score 1 for yes, 0 or no) | 1 | ||
| Did existing monitoring notify the initial responders? (score 1 for yes, 0 for no) | 1 | ||
| Were all engineering tools required available and in service? (score 1 for yes, 0 for no) | 1 | ||
| Was there a runbook for all known issues present? (score 1 for yes, 0 for no) | 1 | ||
| Total score | 7 | ||