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API error: unable to connect to redis
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Description

Browser tests on beta labs have been getting a fair number of these in recent times:

Exception Caught: Unable to connect to redis server. (internal_api_error_JobQueueConnectionError) (MediawikiApi::ApiError)

Often in conjunction with other API errors "Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon." reporting a 503


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72366

Details

Reference
bz72982

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:47 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz72982.
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Chris: can you see if this is related (or not) to runs of scap on Beta Cluster a la bug 72366? 503s are now suspicious to me :)

hashar claimed this task.

Seems the redis server that backs up the job queue processing went down at some point. Jobs are processed right now so redis must be up and this error solved.