Friday, August 30, 2024

The Mother of All Outages: Datadog's 24-Hour Downtime



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 Datadog, the observability giant, just experienced the mother of all outages! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ We're talking a whopping 24+ hours of downtime that cost them a cool $5 mil in lost revenue. ๐Ÿ’ธ And get this, it affected EVERY. SINGLE. CUSTOMER. ๐ŸŒ Talk about a bad day at the office! ๐Ÿ˜… The culprit? A sneaky OS update that wreaked havoc on their systems. ๐Ÿ’ป Despite the massive scale of this fiasco, Datadog has been surprisingly tight-lipped ๐Ÿค about the whole ordeal. No external postmortem? C'mon, spill the tea! ๐Ÿต But hey, there's always a silver lining, right? ๐ŸŒˆ Let's hope they've learned their lesson about double-checking those changelogs and keeping customers in the loop during a crisis. ๐Ÿ“ฃ Want all the juicy details? ๐Ÿ‘€ Read more here: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-biggest-ever-global-outage-lessons?r=2bjtip&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=tldrwebdev&triedRedirect=true And while you're at it, show some love ❤️ to this post with a like, comment, or share! Let's get this convo started. ๐Ÿ—ฃ️ Oh, and don't forget to check out our awesome AI-powered platform at www.babel-fish.ai ๐Ÿš€ Trust me, it's way cooler than watching paint dry. ๐Ÿ˜Ž observability outage postmortem P.S. Go Ravens! ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿ’œ

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