Incident Response When a Proxy Pool Dies
Runbook for total proxy pool failure — diagnosis, failover, provider escalation, and postmortem template.
Runbook for total proxy pool failure — diagnosis, failover, provider escalation, and postmortem template.
Detection
Alerts on zero live proxies or success rate near zero across jobs.
Immediate mitigation
- Switch to backup provider
- Reduce crawl rate
- Pause non-critical jobs
- Notify stakeholders
Related: failover strategies.
Postmortem
Document root cause — provider outage, credential expiry, or bad deploy — and update health checks.
Related: health checks.
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