GiraffeSpotter: 502 Bad Gateway Error : September 24 2024

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In which Wildbook did the issue occur?
GiraffeSpotter

What operating system were you using? (eg. MacOS 10.15.3)
Windows 11

What web browser were you using? (eg. Chrome 79)
Chrome

What is your role on the site? (admin, researcher, etc)
Admin

What happened?
502 Bad Gateway Error

What did you expect to happen?
I expected to be directed to the GiraffeSpotter landing page

What are some steps we could take to reproduce the issue?
Try logging in

Thanks @mbrown

I have fixed the site. I am going to add SMS messaging to our monitoring to try to prevent this further when outages happen during our late night hours.

SMS messaging would be great. Or perhaps some way for us to reboot the system from afar? It’s been challenging to come across this error message in the morning and lose a day of GiraffeSpotting while we wait for the rest of the world to wake up.

After it was fixed this morning, some of our team reported another Bad Gateway Error this afternoon, 9-25-2024.

Thank you.

Yes, the improvements I made to the notification system (SMS alerting) helped us catch that within 20 minutes. The server was restarted.

I am going to look for a quiet moment and quickly upgrade the VM with more vCPUs and RAM to see if this is a resource limit we’re hitting.

Thanks,
Jason

Excellent! That sound great.

More RAM and vCPUs added. Now monitoring to see if that helps resolve the back-toback outages.