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Incidents

116 objects in the archive · 115 ranked picks

Outage and data-loss postmortems written by the people involved

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  1. 1
    This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem
    googleprojectzero.blogspot.com2021–20242 submissionsHN thread
    981 pts
    490 cmts
  2. 2
    Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem
    stackstatus.net20161 submissionHN thread
    862 pts
    316 cmts
  3. 3
    Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11
    status.cloud.google.com20161 submissionHN thread
    799 pts
    350 cmts
  4. 4
    Roblox October Outage Postmortem
    blog.roblox.com20221 submissionHN thread
    687 pts
    310 cmts
  5. 5
    We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
    gds.blog.gov.uk20241 submissionHN thread
    589 pts
    199 cmts
  6. 6
    Google Cloud Networking Incident Postmortem
    status.cloud.google.com20191 submissionHN thread
    570 pts
    182 cmts
  7. 7
    Data Loss at GitLab
    blog.2ndquadrant.com20171 submissionHN thread
    476 pts
    228 cmts
  8. 8
    January 28th Incident Report
    github.com20161 submissionHN thread
    451 pts
    183 cmts
  9. 9
    Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incident report
    usatoday.com20201 submissionHN thread
    430 pts
    293 cmts
  10. 10
    Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users
    epicgames.com20181 submissionHN thread
    414 pts
    174 cmts
  11. 11
    Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports
    techcrunch.com20181 submissionHN thread
    384 pts
    369 cmts
  12. 12
    Postmortem of database outage of January 31
    about.gitlab.com20171 submissionHN thread
    377 pts
    257 cmts
  13. 13
    Google Domains blocking all Gitbook URLS: post-mortem
    blog.gitbook.com20201 submissionHN thread
    369 pts
    186 cmts
  14. 14
    February 28th DDoS Incident Report
    githubengineering.com20181 submissionHN thread
    369 pts
    107 cmts
  15. 15
    An Update on Our Outage
    blog.roblox.com20211 submissionHN thread
    358 pts
    226 cmts
  16. 16
    Post-Mortem and Security Advisory: Data Exposure After travis-ci.com Outage
    blog.travis-ci.com20181 submissionHN thread
    351 pts
    169 cmts
  17. 17
    Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi
    status.kagi.com20241 submissionHN thread
    346 pts
    181 cmts
  18. 18
    Google Cloud Downtime Postmortem
    status.cloud.google.com20181 submissionHN thread
    346 pts
    82 cmts
  19. 19
    GitHub mirror compromise incident report
    wiki.gentoo.org20181 submissionHN thread
    311 pts
    114 cmts
  20. 20
    Unexpected responses from ChatGPT: Incident Report
    status.openai.com20241 submissionHN thread
    293 pts
    260 cmts
  21. 21
    OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As'
    macperformanceguide.com20121 submissionHN thread
    286 pts
    146 cmts
  22. 22
    Sourcehut network outage post-mortem
    sourcehut.org20241 submissionHN thread
    286 pts
    94 cmts
  23. 23
    Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15
    mjtsai.com20191 submissionHN thread
    280 pts
    128 cmts
  24. 24
    GitHub: October 21 Incident Report
    blog.github.com20181 submissionHN thread
    275 pts
    110 cmts
  25. 25
    Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem
    trigger.dev20251 submissionHN thread
    262 pts
    183 cmts
  26. 26
    Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (1989)
    antitrust.slated.org20181 submissionHN thread
    235 pts
    84 cmts
  27. 27
    OptiFi Program Incident Report
    medium.com20221 submissionHN thread
    229 pts
    150 cmts
  28. 28
    Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"
    codinghorror.com20091 submissionHN thread
    223 pts
    165 cmts
  29. 29
    Let's Encrypt OCSP and Issuance Outage Postmortem
    community.letsencrypt.org20171 submissionHN thread
    223 pts
    34 cmts
  30. 30
    Google Cloud Incident Report – 2025-06-13
    status.cloud.google.com20251 submissionHN thread
    209 pts
    218 cmts
  31. 31
    Stripe – Outage postmortem
    support.stripe.com20151 submissionHN thread
    208 pts
    125 cmts
  32. 32
    Incident report: Employee and customer account compromise
    twilio.com20221 submissionHN thread
    207 pts
    155 cmts
  33. 33
    Post-mortem of March 12 Google outage
    status.cloud.google.com20191 submissionHN thread
    204 pts
    107 cmts
  34. 34
    Can Facebook provide postmortems on their iOS SDK crashes?
    github.com20201 submissionHN thread
    204 pts
    97 cmts
  35. 35
    Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10
    stripe.com20191 submissionHN thread
    203 pts
    108 cmts
  36. 36
    Heroku's AWS outage post-mortem
    status.heroku.com20111 submissionHN thread
    202 pts
    80 cmts
  37. 37
    Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google
    tinystruggles.com20241 submissionHN thread
    198 pts
    231 cmts
  38. 38
    Final Root Cause Analysis of Nov 18 Azure Service Interruption
    azure.microsoft.com20141 submissionHN thread
    198 pts
    70 cmts
  39. 39
    Tarsnap outage post-mortem
    daemonology.net20121 submissionHN thread
    190 pts
    52 cmts
  40. 40
    Npm security post-mortem
    blog.npmjs.org20141 submissionHN thread
    188 pts
    63 cmts
  41. 41
    Incident Report: Inadvertent Private Repository Disclosure
    github.com20161 submissionHN thread
    187 pts
    41 cmts
  42. 42
    Post-mortem and remediations for the Matrix.org security breach
    matrix.org20191 submissionHN thread
    183 pts
    64 cmts
  43. 43
    Git ransom campaign incident report
    about.gitlab.com20191 submissionHN thread
    181 pts
    71 cmts
  44. 44
    Lichess: Post-Mortem of Our Longest Downtime
    lichess.org20241 submissionHN thread
    176 pts
    53 cmts
  45. 45
    Nov 16 GCP Load Balancing Incident Report
    status.cloud.google.com20211 submissionHN thread
    172 pts
    76 cmts
  46. 46
    Incident Report for Confluence
    confluence.status.atlassian.com20221 submissionHN thread
    170 pts
    133 cmts
  47. 47
    Discord outage postmortem
    discord.statuspage.io20201 submissionHN thread
    157 pts
    60 cmts
  48. 48
    CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead, Comedians Lost Work
    wsj.com20201 submissionHN thread
    152 pts
    369 cmts
  49. 49
    Incident Report – DDoS Attack
    blog.dnsimple.com20141 submissionHN thread
    146 pts
    38 cmts
  50. 50
    Google AI Challenge: Winner post-mortem and source code
    a1k0n.net20101 submissionHN thread
    146 pts
    36 cmts