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RubyGems.org: Elevated Errors
Fastly outage, Jun 8, 2021 · 27 vendors, 27 incidents
RubyGems.org’s incident blames Fastly as the cause. (hop 1, posted +0 min vs the first vendor naming Fastly)
“…levels and errors return to normal. The elevated 503 and 502 errors seem to be because of Fastly's ongoing incident. We are following along at https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj. This in…”
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h1["Within an hour<br/>2 vendors, 2 blamed Fastly<br/>RubyGems.org, Braze"]:::blames
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me["RubyGems.org (this incident)<br/>posted +0 min"]:::me
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Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider. A link means one vendor’s incident named another, not a confirmed cause.
Affected components: Dependency APIApplicationGem DownloadsGem Index API
Timeline of updates
- investigating
We're experiencing an elevated level of errors and are currently looking into the issue.
- investigating
The elevated 503 and 502 errors seem to be because of Fastly's ongoing incident. We are following along at https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj.
- identified
Our CDN partner has identified the issue and a fix is being implemented.
- monitoring
Our CDN provider has applied a fix and over the last few minutes we saw traffic levels and errors return to normal.
- resolved
This incident has been resolved.
Changes Rewindex caught on this incident
- Jun 8, 2021Major incident: Elevated Errors
Archive proof
Rewindex commits each version of an incident it captures to a daily checkpoint, chains it to the day before, and has the checkpoint timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert. That proves this record existed by then and has not been changed since, by anyone, Rewindex included.
How the archive is checked, and what it cannot prove.
First version captured 17:33 UTC
In the 2026-10-19 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on Oct 20, 00:41 UTC. Record hash
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Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on stspg.io (opens in new tab).
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