Incidents/20160610-ORES

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Summary

ORES was down for an unknown amount of hours today due to a broken configuration file (99-redis.yaml).

Timeline

• ??? -- https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/commit/78119152c47b7873fdd7bd0c38a356b5bff27226 was merged to the production branch of wikimedia puppet

at least 6 hours passes

• 2016-06-10 @ 1930 UTC -- 503 errors and timeouts were noted
• 2016-06-10 @ 2030 UTC -- 99-redis.yaml files are deleted and the workers are restarted. Service is restored.

Conclusions

https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/commit/78119152c47b7873fdd7bd0c38a356b5bff27226 should not have been merged. We need a better testing process around puppet merges to make sure that they don't take down the service. Unlike a deploy, there's to a clear event at which puppet is run.

Also, this downtime did not cause a paging event.

Actionables

• Investigate why we were not paged when the downtime started Phab:T137592