Outages and degradations can happen when underlying data isn’t fresh enough. In recent weeks, stale data may have contributed to incidents at both Slack and Cloudflare.
Slack began experiencing issues when, by our best guess, its app stopped trusting the freshness of the data in the cache; and, separately, Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver ran into some issues related to stale root zone data.
Watch this Pulse Update episode to hear more about the Cloudflare and Slack outages, and also explore recent disruptions at Google. For more insights, check out these links:
- Explore the Slack outage in the ThousandEyes platform (NO LOGIN REQUIRED)
- Interested in more outage analysis? Check out our Internet Outages Timeline, which covers several notable Internet outages and application issues from the past year, along with the lessons they leave
- Want more Pulse Updates? Check out our YouTube channel here!