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Ask HN: Google Load Balancer / Cloudflare Issues

4 pointsby stephenheronalmost 2 years ago
Hi HN,<p>I am a bit of a loss so I am coming to Hacker News in the hopes someone has seen anything like this.<p>Approximately 6 hours ago we started getting a very strange error back from our site, that appears intermittently:<p>&quot;&lt;html&gt;&lt;title&gt;Error 500 (Internal Server Error)!&lt;&#x2F;title&gt;&lt;&#x2F;html&gt;&quot;<p>This error is a little bit strange, with only an HTML title and no body and a &#x27;!&#x27; being used. From a Google we can find no other references to this error, I did a search on Twitter and found 1 other reference to it, which is from a users complaining they can&#x27;t get access to &quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.character.ai&#x2F;&quot;. We verified that they are also seeing the same issue. The interesting this is that our site, also has the word beta in it which seems a bit suspicious.<p>We are running our site behind Cloudflare which is pointing to a Google Cloud Load balancer, from investigating the headers on &quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.character.ai&#x2F;&quot; we can see they are running a similar setup.<p>We have struggled to 100% identify if the issue is sitting with Cloudflare or Google but my current suspicion is Google.<p>If anyone has seen anything like this before, or can provide any assistance I would be very grateful.<p>Thanks, Stephen

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plasmaalmost 2 years ago
I’ve had to triage Cloudflare connectivity issues before, if you have a timestamp or when the error appears you can ask CF support to check backend logs for the error reason