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ACTIVE INCIDENTINC-2024-0227 · Started 14:32 UTC · Duration 41m
2,847 subscribers notified

Components

API Gateway
Outage
Auth Service
Degraded
Dashboard UI
Degraded
Webhooks
Operational
CDN / Assets
Operational

Incident Timeline

15:12 UTCRESOLVED

API Gateway fully restored. Monitoring continues.

14:58 UTCUPDATE

Fix deployed to 3/4 regions. Degraded performance may persist.

14:44 UTCIDENTIFIED

Root cause identified: database connection pool exhaustion.

14:32 UTCINVESTIGATING

Investigating elevated error rates on API Gateway. 503s reported.

Auto-dispatched Subscriber Alert

✓ Sent 14:33 UTC

Subject: [Outage] API Gateway — Investigating elevated error rates

We are currently investigating an issue affecting API Gateway. Users may experience 503 errors when making API requests.

Next update in 30 minutes or as soon as we have more information.

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#8821

API returning 503 — our checkout is broken

2m agourgent
#8820

Users cannot log in, is auth down?

3m agohigh
#8819

Webhooks not firing for the past 20 minutes

5m agohigh
#8818

Dashboard shows blank page after login

6m agomedium
#8817

Same as #8816, still broken

7m agourgent
#8816

Integration completely down, clients calling

8m agourgent

Every ticket asking the same question you haven't answered yet.

#incidents · 6 new messages

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Jordan P.14:33

IS THE API DOWN?? Getting 503 everywhere

P
Priya M.14:33

Same here, checkout is broken for all customers

T
Tyler K.14:34

@oncall @oncall @oncall someone respond

A
Amara O.14:34

I have 3 enterprise clients calling me right now

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Incident Created

14:32:01

Alert Dispatched

14:32:47

2,847 Notified

14:32:58

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