New Podcast
Managing Traffic During Peak Demand; Plus, Microsoft, Akamai Outages

The Internet Report

Ep. 45: The Facebook Outage, Explained

By Angelique Medina
| | 2 min read
Internet Report on Apple Podcasts Internet Report on Spotify Internet Report on SoundCloud

Summary

Today I’m joined by Gustavo Ramos, ThousandEyes Principal Network Engineer, and we’re going to unpack the Facebook outage that took place on Monday, October 4.


This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. Today I’m joined by Gustavo Ramos, ThousandEyes Principal Network Engineer, and we’re going to unpack the Facebook outage that took place on Monday, October 4. Watch this week’s episode as we dive deeper into Facebook’s incident report, and also discuss the lessons to be learned from this outage, including: 

  • Why you should diversify networks with external services and providers
  • Why redundant DNS is a good idea
  • Why war room simulations are a must


Catch up on past episodes of The Internet Report here.

 Find us on:

Finally, don’t forget to leave a comment on Twitter, tagging @ThousandEyes and using the hashtag #TheInternetReport.

ThousandEyes-WFH-T-Shirt-Offer-Banner.png

Subscribe to the ThousandEyes Blog

Stay connected with blog updates and outage reports delivered while they're still fresh.

Upgrade your browser to view our website properly.

Please download the latest version of Chrome, Firefox or Microsoft Edge.

More detail