AIrtable showing 503 / Service not available

[Ronni_Eloff]

I just read this Contacting Airtable Support about bugs

Says to use the In-App to contact Support.

SO — how do we contact support when we’re getting this

[ScottWorld]

Airtable is currently down.

Current status is on this page:

https://status.airtable.com

[Ronni_Eloff]

SWEET – Thank you so very much - Bookmarking that link.

5th time this last two weeks that I’ve been getting this and it’s been affecting my very small business.

[Dominik_Bosnjak]

Another global outage in a week, yup.

[Bob_Clarke]

Well that was perfect timing. I just finished launching a major implementation for our company and right in the middle of a training session (including management) AirTable goes down. … and I was the one who convinced the team and higher-ups to use this platform. … Ouch!

[Jeremy_Oglesby]

@Bob_Clarke :persevere: … that’s no fun.

[ScottWorld]

Ronni_Eloff:

5th time this last two weeks that I’ve been getting this and it’s been affecting my very small business

Bob_Clarke:

right in the middle of a training session (including management) AirTable goes down. … and I was the one who convinced the team and higher-ups to use this platform. … Ouch!

Yeah, the reliability of Airtable is really coming into question these days. It’s making a lot of us look very bad to a lot of people.

The user interface is currently back up again, but the API is still down. :frowning:

[Ronni_Eloff]

If they are doing clustering - where not all connections are on one server - they would not have this kind of outage if someone uses an API wrong.

I may be a few years out of the Client/Server space, but load balancing, failovers, and limiting others to impact others was a key to having stability.

And Bob- that sucks. I’m in the middle of a video production- gathering release forms.

[ScottWorld]

Ronni_Eloff:

If they are doing clustering - where not all connections are on one server - they would not have this kind of outage if someone uses an API wrong.

I may be a few years out of the Client/Server space, but load balancing, failovers, and limiting others to impact others was a key to having stability.

I highly doubt that they have a concept of these things.

[Ronni_Eloff]

ScottWorld:

I highly doubt that they have a concept of these things.

That is not very comforting.
Spent since 1998 in large enterprise multi million transactions per second complexes.
If they are not set up to scale - then this is just going to get worse.