Internet Outages
Derived data useful for detecting regional internet outages, shared with some trusted external partners.
See https://docs.google.com/document/d/15HvdPS3UwGhAir6HyWHDLDRaxUFycx4jagJ_ZrHr9D8/edit
global_outages_v1
Internet Outages
internet_outages.global_outages_v1
This contains a set aggregated metrics that correlate to internet outages for different countries in the world.
The dataset contains the following fields:
- country: the Country code of the client.
- city: the City name (only for cities with a population >= 15000,
'unknown' otherwise).
- datetime: the date and the time (truncated to hour) the data was
submitted by the client.
- proportion_undefined: the proportion of users who failed to send
telemetry for a reason that was not listed in the other cases.
- proportion_timeout: the proportion of users that had their connection
timeout while uploading telemetry
(after 90s, in Firefox Desktop).
- proportion_abort: the proportion of users that had their connection
terminated by the client (for example, terminating open connections before
shutting down).
- proportion_unreachable: the proportion of users that failed to upload
telemetry because the server was not reachable (e.g. because the host was
not reachable, proxy problems or OS waking up after a suspension).
- proportion_terminated: the proportion of users that had their connection
terminated internally by the networking code.
- proportion_channel_open: the proportion of users for which the upload
request was terminated immediately, by the client, because of a Necko
internal error.
- avg_dns_success_time: the average time it takes for a successful DNS
resolution, in milliseconds.
- missing_dns_success: counts how many sessions did not report the
DNS_LOOKUP_TIME histogram.
- avg_dns_failure_time: the average time it takes for an unsuccessful DNS
resolution, in milliseconds.
- missing_dns_failure: counts how many sessions did not report the
DNS_FAILED_LOOKUP_TIME histogram.
- count_dns_failure: the average count of unsuccessful DNS resolutions
reported.
- ssl_error_prop: the proportion of users that reported an error through
the SSL_CERT_VERIFICATION_ERRORS histogram.
- avg_tls_handshake_time: the average time after the TCP SYN to ready
for HTTP, in milliseconds.
Caveats with the data: As with any observational data, there are many caveats and interpretation must be done carefully. Below is a list of issues we have considered, but it is not exhaustive. - Firefox users are not representative of the general population in their region. - Users can experience multiple types of failures and so the proportions are not summable. For example, if 2.4% of clients had a timeout and 2.6% of clients had eUnreachable that doesn't necessarily mean that 5.0% of clients had a timeout or a eUnreachable - Geographical data is based on IPGeo databases. These databases are imperfect, so some activity may be attributed to the wrong location. Further, proxy and VPN usage can create geo-attribution errors.
- Owners:
| Column | Description | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|---|
| country | String | Yes | |
| city | String | Yes | |
| datetime | Timestamp | Yes | |
| proportion_undefined | Float | Yes | |
| proportion_timeout | Float | Yes | |
| proportion_abort | Float | Yes | |
| proportion_unreachable | Float | Yes | |
| proportion_terminated | Float | Yes | |
| proportion_channel_open | Float | Yes | |
| avg_dns_success_time | Float | Yes | |
| missing_dns_success | Float | Yes | |
| avg_dns_failure_time | Float | Yes | |
| missing_dns_failure | Float | Yes | |
| count_dns_failure | Float | Yes | |
| ssl_error_prop | Float | Yes | |
| avg_tls_handshake_time | Float | Yes |
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