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Incident documentation/2021-11-25 eventgate-main outage
document status: in-review
Summary
During the helm3 migration of eqiad Kubernetes cluster the service eventgate-main experience an outage. The service was not available between 7:32 and 7:35 UTC.
For the helm3 migration the service had to be removed and re-deployed to the cluster. Most Kubernetes services were explicitly pooled in codfw-only during the re-deployments. eventgate-main was also falsely assumed to be served by Codfw but was still pooled in Eqiad. So during the time of removing and re-creating the pods, no traffic could be served for this service.
The commands used to migrate and re-deploy codfw (see T251305#7492328) were adapted and re-used for eqiad (see T251305#7526591). Due to a small difference in what Kubernetes services are pooled as active-active and what are active-passive, eventgate-main was missing in the depooling command (as is it not pooled in codfw currently).
Impact: For about 3 minutes (from 7:32 to 7:35 UTC), eventgate-main was unavailable. This resulted in 25,000 unrecoverable MediaWiki backend errors due to inability to queue new jobs. About 1,000 user-facing web requests and API requests failed with an HTTP 500 error. Event intake processing rate measured by eventgate briefly dropped from ~3000/second to 0/second during the outage.
Documentation:
- 2021-11-25-mediawiki-exceptions.png
- 2021-11-25-eventgate-statistics.png
- 2021-11-25-varnish-http500.png
Actionables
- automate maintenance and proper de-depooling of Kubernetes services using a cookbook T277677 and T260663
- reduce snowflake services which need special treatment and make most/all of them active-active (for example T288685)
- optional: create a lvs/pybal/k8s service dashboard to see which service is pooled in which DC (will create a task)
- T296699: Pool eventgate-main in both datacenters (active/active)