# Debugging discourse downtime

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/debugging-discourse-downtime/72618>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [October 23, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/debugging-discourse-downtime/72618 "2017-10-23T17:09:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/debugging-discourse-downtime/72618/2 "2017-10-23T20:49:13Z")

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The stacktrace has to do with Discourse not being able to talk to your SMTP server. Since this is done in a background job I don’t think this is what caused your downtime.

The monitoring agent not reporting for the first ~15 minutes of the downtime suggests that this might be a system issue rather than a Discourse issue.

Maybe @supermathie has ideas what to look next?

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