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Incidents

116 objects in the archive · 115 ranked picks

Outage and data-loss postmortems written by the people involved

PointsCommentsRecommendersNewest
  1. 51
    Outage post-mortem
    tech.dropbox.com20141 submissionHN thread
    143 pts
    41 cmts
  2. 52
    Google AI Challenge Winner Post-Mortem
    quotenil.com20101 submissionHN thread
    138 pts
    3 cmts
  3. 53
    Root cause analysis? You're doing it wrong
    entropicthoughts.com20251 submissionHN thread
    137 pts
    92 cmts
  4. 54
    MegaUpload users plan to sue the FBI over lost files
    torrentfreak.com20121 submissionHN thread
    135 pts
    58 cmts
  5. 55
    ARIN Public Incident Report – 4.10 Misissuance Error
    arin.net20251 submissionHN thread
    135 pts
    35 cmts
  6. 56
    Post-mortem of this weekend's NPM incident
    blog.npmjs.org20181 submissionHN thread
    132 pts
    43 cmts
  7. 57
    Dropbox confirms that a bug within Selective Sync may have caused data loss
    gist.githubusercontent.com20141 submissionHN thread
    128 pts
    60 cmts
  8. 58
    File Systems, Data Loss and ZFS
    clusterhq.com20141 submissionHN thread
    128 pts
    55 cmts
  9. 59
    Add-Ons Outage Post-Mortem Result
    hacks.mozilla.org20191 submissionHN thread
    126 pts
    80 cmts
  10. 60
    Crates.io incident report for 2020-02-20
    blog.rust-lang.org20201 submissionHN thread
    124 pts
    23 cmts
  11. 61
    Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds data loss and performance issues
    tomshardware.com20251 submissionHN thread
    123 pts
    87 cmts
  12. 62
    GitLab.com Downtime Postmortem
    docs.google.com20141 submissionHN thread
    123 pts
    48 cmts
  13. 63
    Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8
    engineering.atspotify.com20221 submissionHN thread
    120 pts
    129 cmts
  14. 64
    Postmortem: Azure DevOps (VSTS) Outage of 4 Sep 2018
    blogs.msdn.microsoft.com20181 submissionHN thread
    118 pts
    42 cmts
  15. 65
    Incident report on memory leak caused by Cloudflare parser bug
    blog.cloudflare.com20171 submissionHN thread
    115 pts
    11 cmts
  16. 66
    Elasticsearch node crashes can cause data loss
    github.com20151 submissionHN thread
    112 pts
    50 cmts
  17. 67
    Epic Games certificate expiration incident report
    epicgames.com20211 submissionHN thread
    107 pts
    79 cmts
  18. 68
    Netflix: Post-mortem of 22 Oct AWS degradation
    techblog.netflix.com20121 submissionHN thread
    105 pts
    20 cmts
  19. 69
    Moving Django to GitHub: the postmortem
    holovaty.com20121 submissionHN thread
    101 pts
    24 cmts
  20. 70
    Minesweeper automates root cause analysis as a first-line defense against bugs
    engineering.fb.com20211 submissionHN thread
    98 pts
    24 cmts
  21. 71
    Google wreaks havoc on our company’s calendars: lost data and security breaches
    elezea.com20121 submissionHN thread
    93 pts
    22 cmts
  22. 72
    When Kids Start Doing Root Cause Analysis
    blog.marksweep.com20121 submissionHN thread
    92 pts
    24 cmts
  23. 73
    Post-mortem of Christmas Eve Amazon ELB outage
    aws.amazon.com20121 submissionHN thread
    90 pts
    38 cmts
  24. 74
    Root Cause Analysis of a Non-Deterministic JavaScriptCore Vulnerability
    blog.ret2.io20181 submissionHN thread
    90 pts
    3 cmts
  25. 75
    The probability of data loss in large clusters
    martin.kleppmann.com20171 submissionHN thread
    87 pts
    21 cmts
  26. 76
    Bitbucket: On our extended downtime with Amazon
    blog.bitbucket.org20091 submissionHN thread
    86 pts
    36 cmts
  27. 77
    Postmortem for outage of us-east-1
    joyent.com20141 submissionHN thread
    83 pts
    66 cmts
  28. 78
    Incident Report for Anthropic
    status.anthropic.com20251 submissionHN thread
    81 pts
    70 cmts
  29. 79
    Post-mortem analysis on Google App Engine outage
    groups.google.com20091 submissionHN thread
    81 pts
    19 cmts
  30. 80
    Postmortem: Outage due to Elasticsearch’s flexibility and our carelessness
    lambda.grofers.com20151 submissionHN thread
    78 pts
    27 cmts
  31. 81
    Billing Incident Post-Mortem: Breakdown, Analysis and Root Cause
    twilio.com20131 submissionHN thread
    77 pts
    31 cmts
  32. 82
    CouchDB Notice for 1.0.1 - Potential Data Loss
    couchdb.apache.org20101 submissionHN thread
    74 pts
    32 cmts
  33. 83
    Soylent Shipping Delay Root Cause Analysis
    blog.soylent.com20151 submissionHN thread
    73 pts
    65 cmts
  34. 84
    Incident report for February 21st, 2024
    resend.com20241 submissionHN thread
    73 pts
    62 cmts
  35. 85
    A Root Cause Analysis EBook
    sologic.com20181 submissionHN thread
    72 pts
    11 cmts
  36. 86
    Block Storage Issues Across All Regions: Incident Report for DigitalOcean
    status.digitalocean.com20191 submissionHN thread
    70 pts
    14 cmts
  37. 87
    Tuesday's Heroku outage post-mortem
    blog.heroku.com20101 submissionHN thread
    69 pts
    41 cmts
  38. 88
    CISA publishes 447 page draft of cyber incident reporting rule
    therecord.media20241 submissionHN thread
    69 pts
    17 cmts
  39. 89
    MyBitcoin Incident Report - August 4th 2011
    mybitcoin.com20111 submissionHN thread
    67 pts
    28 cmts
  40. 90
    Root cause analysis on the Notre Dame fire
    sologic.com20201 submissionHN thread
    63 pts
    31 cmts
  41. 91
    Postmortem of Heroku's June 23 Downtime
    status.heroku.com20141 submissionHN thread
    63 pts
    20 cmts
  42. 92
    Jeff Bezos and Root Cause Analysis
    shmula.com20091 submissionHN thread
    61 pts
    22 cmts
  43. 93
    Matrix is hacked, hacker leaves friendly post-mortem on GitHub
    twitter.com20191 submissionHN thread
    56 pts
    6 cmts
  44. 94
    Your SATA RAID has a 56% chance of data loss
    alumnit.ca20081 submissionHN thread
    55 pts
    25 cmts
  45. 95
    Atlassian outage lingers, sparking data loss fears
    theregister.com20221 submissionHN thread
    54 pts
    16 cmts
  46. 96
    If we plug this in without telling anyone, nobody will know we caused the outage
    theregister.com20241 submissionHN thread
    52 pts
    9 cmts
  47. 97
    We migrated from AWS to GCP with minimal downtime
    postgresml.org20241 submissionHN thread
    51 pts
    25 cmts
  48. 98
    Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise
    arstechnica.com20231 submissionHN thread
    49 pts
    1 cmts
  49. 99
    Google App Engine Team's Post-mortem for February 24 Outage
    groups.google.com20101 submissionHN thread
    48 pts
    20 cmts
  50. 100
    Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem
    mail.tarsnap.com20231 submissionHN thread
    46 pts
    2 cmts