Newsblur is down (12:06 PST)

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#1

Unable to read any Feeds. (Thursday Feb 11 at 12:06 PM)

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#2

I have two independent uptime monitors that will both text and email me whenever there’s trouble. I know about as quickly as you can get. On top of that, I also have multiple server monitors that check for elevated error rates, server-level issues, and network latency.

In other words, you don’t need to post a support request and tweet at two of my accounts to let me know if NewsBlur is down. And in this case, NewsBlur wasn’t even down. You experienced a blip that is caused by app servers failing over. It lasts a couple seconds and only effects a single user at a time (the unlucky user who hits the server when it lags). 

#3

Thanks for the explanation. I’m sorry to have bothered you. Just to be complete, however, the same issue is occurring now and lasts far longer than a couple of seconds (I would never have reported it lasted less than 5-10 minutes, which I why I wrongly assumed it was down. Again, I apologize for having bothered you with this.

#4

Looks like you were absolutely right. Two of my app servers were experiencing high latency, resulting in a number of error calls. I might have to figure out how to automatically disable app servers that are performing this poorly. I do have access to HAProxy’s stats and it knows which app servers are way over a latency threshold. I should build that soon.