Roblox Outage - Worst Outage Yet?

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The webpage doesn’t load anymore…

Its still a bit iffy so it should be fixed soon.

It works again, it seems, how interesting…

Roblox is now officially back online. Also I was on vacation for the entire weekend so I didn’t really check the website status.

Alright, everyone should now have access to roblox.

In the banner roblox has said it should slowly come back, roblox will be a bit sluggish for the first couple hours/days, but then it will regain it’s strength again!

Yep everyone is now able to access roblox now.

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Official post regarding the situation…

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Yep, just saw that. It’s sad.

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I think it’s time for Roblox to improve their servers instead of just fixing it and letting it go.

Me! It works perfectly, it Should work for you. Try downloading it again

Mhm, because roblox didn’t expect ALL servers down.

Downloading it again, that shouldn’t really make a difference unless the app is corrupted on the local device.

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Yeah, unless you delete related files (or from %appdata% on Windows 10/11)

For those wondering, here is an official statement on what happened.

In a short summary this was what caused the issues:

  • The outage lasted 73 hours.
  • The root cause was due to two issues. Enabling a relatively new streaming feature on Consul under unusually high read and write load led to excessive contention and poor performance. In addition, our particular load conditions triggered a pathological performance issue in BoltDB. The open source BoltDB system is used within Consul to manage write-ahead-logs for leader election and data replication.
  • A single Consul cluster supporting multiple workloads exacerbated the impact of these issues.
  • Challenges in diagnosing these two primarily unrelated issues buried deep in the Consul implementation were largely responsible for the extended downtime.
  • Critical monitoring systems that would have provided better visibility into the cause of the outage relied on affected systems, such as Consul. This combination severely hampered the triage process.
  • We were thoughtful and careful in our approach to bringing Roblox up from an extended fully-down state, which also took notable time.
  • We have accelerated engineering efforts to improve our monitoring, remove circular dependencies in our observability stack, as well as accelerating our bootstrapping process.
  • We are working to move to multiple availability zones and data canters.
  • We are remediating the issues in Consul that were the root cause of this event.

(And yes, roblox is down again)

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Aaa aa aa aaaaa aaa aaaaa aaa! Not again!!

This may have been a root issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trAKvYIsqIc

Question, can you respond to my message?

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Roblox is down again!

Most likely due to the NFL event!

Hopefully this issue is resolved again! :grimacing:

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Yeah, no wonder it was showing “?” Robux for me. I was almost freaked out until I checked the status.

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:laughing: That’s happened to me before.

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This gets on my nerves…

Silly little server bugs really ruin the experience, I was in the middle of the game, then all a sudden, “ROBLOX player has crashed. Sorry!”.