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{
  "request": "Triage Jira ticket SREIN-1684: Phabricator experiencing high rate of 504s",
  "references": [
    "https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/SREIN-1684"
  ],
  "sourceContext": {
    "issue": "SREIN-1684"
  }
}

summary

SREIN-1684 tracks an active incident where Phabricator is returning a high rate of 504 (Gateway Timeout) errors. Investigation (via Slack WAF investigator skill, per comment from James Francis) attributes this to a DDoS-style scraping campaign from a large residential proxy network active since 2026-08-08 ~04:00 UTC. A JA4 fingerprint-based browser challenge has been identified as a mitigation that would block ~95% of the offending traffic, with JA4 + 5 additional UA string rules covering ~100%. A follow-up comment indicates a PR ("PR is at -") was intended to reference the mitigation change, but the link/identifier appears missing or not populated in the ticket. No runbook or Confluence design doc was referenced in the ticket, so no additional context was pulled from Confluence.

findings

• Root cause identified: DDoS/scraping traffic from a large residential proxy network causing Phabricator 504s.
• A proposed mitigation exists and has been quantified: JA4-based browser challenge blocks ~95% of malicious traffic; adding 5 UA string rules brings coverage to ~100%.
• A pull request was referenced as containing the mitigation, but the ticket's comment does not include a working link or PR identifier, creating a traceability gap.
• No runbook or Confluence design doc is linked in the ticket description or comments, so incident-specific process documentation could not be cross-referenced.
• Ticket status is 'In Progress', consistent with an active, ongoing incident response rather than a stalled or unactioned ticket.

proposed actions

Triage update: Root cause has been identified as a DDoS/scraping campaign from a large residential proxy network active since 2026-08-08 ~04:00 UTC, causing the elevated 504 rate on Phabricator. The recommended mitigation (JA4 browser-challenge rule, optionally combined with 5 additional UA-string rules for ~100% coverage) looks solid and should be prioritized for deployment given the ongoing incident. Could you please attach/link the actual PR reference for the mitigation change (the previous comment shows 'PR is at -' with no link)? This is needed for tracking and for post-incident review. Once the WAF rule is deployed, please confirm 504 rates have dropped and update the ticket status accordingly, then proceed to close out the incident per standard SRE-IN incident closure process (postmortem link, timeline, and any follow-up hardening tasks).

tool calls

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      "key": "SREIN-1684",
      "summary": "Phabricator experiencing high rate of 504s",
      "status": "In Progress",
      "description_text": "We\u2019re seeing a high incident of 504 responses from Phabricator. An incident has been declared.",
      "comment_count": 2,
      "comments": [
        {
          "author": "James Francis",
          "body": "from    in slack   WAF investigator skill thinks this is a DDoS we can mitigate with a browser challenge on a specific JA4 [11:53 AM] Phabricator is being scraped by a large residential proxy network that has been running since 2026-08-08 ~04:00 UTC JA4 browser challenge would block ~95% of the traffic, JA4 + 5 UA strings would cover 100%"
        },
        {
          "author": "James Francis",
          "body": "PR is at -"
        }
      ]
    }
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