npm: 503s on www and auth failures on CLI
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Our authentication services were briefly overloaded by an external event, leading to auth failures on package pages and the command line. Monitoring detected the incident and it was resolved after approximately 30 minutes of instability.
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Status incident (vendor impact label: none) posted by npm, started 2016-01-30 08:10 UTC, resolved after 0 min, 1 update(s).
- Title
- 503s on www and auth failures on CLI
- Vendor
- npm
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/npm/incidents/fbkmjplfghjk
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