Seven minutes of registry partial outage, 2014-02-21

Severity: Major
Category: Network
Service: npm

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Overview

For 7 minutes this morning, from about 5.43 to 5.50am Pacific Time, the registry was mostly unavailable due to another data center network issue.

Impact

Registry mostly unavailable

Trigger

Data center network issue

Detection

Data center network issue

Resolution

Distributing servers across two data centers to avoid being taken out by an issue of this kind. Continue to work on eliminating our single points of failure, such that we can stay up with half our servers down.

Root Cause

Data center network issue