AI-Media incident

LEXI Disruption

Resolved after 7 hours 30 minutes, on September 18, 2025.

postmortem Oct 06, 2025, 08:58 PM UTC

**Date/Time:** September 18th, 2025, 15:30-16:00 UTC \(11:30-12:00 EDT\) **Duration:** ~30 minutes **Impact:** Fewer than 10 LEXI jobs experienced dropped or delayed output \(1-5 minutes\) **Root Cause:** Missing CPU resource limits on infrastructure components caused node instability **Timeline** * **15:30 UTC:** Service disruption begins affecting LEXI jobs * **15:30-16:00 UTC:** Users experience intermittent dropped/delayed output * **15:45 UTC:** Issue detected via monitoring alerts showing CPU spikes on compute nodes * **16:00 UTC:** Service automatically recovered * **16:00-22:00 UTC:** Investigation identified resource limit configuration issue on \[specific components\] * **22:00 UTC \(6:00 PM EST\):** CPU resource limits applied to affected infrastructure components **Root Cause Analysis** Infrastructure components running without proper CPU resource limits consumed excessive resources, causing: 1. CPU spikes on compute nodes 2. Node instability 3. Disruption to LEXI job processing This same root cause likely explains the similar incident on September 8th.

Started
Sep 18, 2025, 03:30 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 18, 2025, 11:00 PM UTC
Duration
7h 30m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 18, 2025, 03:30 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. resolved Sep 19, 2025, 02:39 AM UTC

    We investigated a brief service disruption that affected 10 or fewer LEXI jobs on September 18th (~15:30-16:00 UTC). Users experienced dropped or delayed output of varying lengths between ~1 minute and ~5 minutes. Drops in output resolved without user intervention. We identified a potential root cause that may also explain the similar incident on September 8th. No further instances have been detected since this timeframe.

  2. postmortem Oct 06, 2025, 08:58 PM UTC

    **Date/Time:** September 18th, 2025, 15:30-16:00 UTC \(11:30-12:00 EDT\) **Duration:** ~30 minutes **Impact:** Fewer than 10 LEXI jobs experienced dropped or delayed output \(1-5 minutes\) **Root Cause:** Missing CPU resource limits on infrastructure components caused node instability **Timeline** * **15:30 UTC:** Service disruption begins affecting LEXI jobs * **15:30-16:00 UTC:** Users experience intermittent dropped/delayed output * **15:45 UTC:** Issue detected via monitoring alerts showing CPU spikes on compute nodes * **16:00 UTC:** Service automatically recovered * **16:00-22:00 UTC:** Investigation identified resource limit configuration issue on \[specific components\] * **22:00 UTC \(6:00 PM EST\):** CPU resource limits applied to affected infrastructure components **Root Cause Analysis** Infrastructure components running without proper CPU resource limits consumed excessive resources, causing: 1. CPU spikes on compute nodes 2. Node instability 3. Disruption to LEXI job processing This same root cause likely explains the similar incident on September 8th.

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