Ep. 45 The Facebook Outage, Explained (10/4/21)

This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. Today we’re going to do a thorough analysis of the major Facebook outage that took place yesterday, Monday, October 4. I’m joined by ​​Gustavo Ramons, ThousandEyes’ in-house expert on Network Engineering.. Watch this week’s episode as we walk through the sequence of events that led to this outage, understand what went wrong (and what actions may have made the situation worse), and what lessons we can all learn from this outage.