Grafana

Grafana is a tool to visually monitor the Wikimedia server load. You get an overview of the server load for the different applications, and immediately see if there is a general problem.

Usage

• When using Pywikibot, and you get Maxlag timeout messages, you can monitor the Wikidata Maxlag transaction delay, to see when you could resume running your scripts.

Tool location

• Wikidata alerts (Maxlag)
• Overall availability
• https://www.wikimediastatus.net
• https://wikimedia.statuspage.io/history
• Power usage per datacenter (restricted access)

Known problems

1. Enables auto-refresh when laptop starts up
   • Disable manually
2. Maximum retries attempted due to maxlag without success
   • Temporary technical problems at Wikidata; no items are updated/created
   • Retry later, after the edits have resumed
3. Wikimedia read-only mode activated for all platforms after malicious JavaScript (3 March 2026)