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Incidents/20160407-Mediawiki

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Summary

All Mediawiki servers were serving mostly HTTP 5XX for about 5 minutes at 1350 UTC

Timeline

  • 13:50 UTC: switch CirrusSearch traffic to codfw, with a buggy configuration (see https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/282163/ for the correction)
  • almost immediate raise in HTTP 5XX errors to 400K errors / minute
  • 13:53 UTC: rollback
  • 13:55 UTC: error rate back to reasonable level

Conclusions

  1. unit testing wmf-config is hard
  2. testing configuration changes related to datacenter is not possible on labs
  3. carefully testing this kind of change on test nodes (mw1017/mw1099/mw2017/mw2099) is the minimum required

Actionables

Immediate issues have been addressed. This incident is mainly about human error (mine) and insufficient testing (me again).

  • a standardized and automated canary test system would help mitigate this kind of issues, but is probably a long term action outside of the scope of a post incident action.
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