AskCody experienced a critical incident on October 29, 2025 affecting Outlook Add-in and Outlook Add-in and 1 more component, lasting 15h 13m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 29, 2025, 04:13 PM UTC
Affected Users: All Region: All customers in all regions We are currently experiencing a major outage on all components of the platform and are now investigating the cause. Users may experience this issue as errors saying the site cannot be reached. The next update will be provided at 8 pm CEST, unless cause is found before then, in which case we will update immediately. Major Outage Definition: A component is unavailable for all users. Affects the up-time calculation 100%.
- identified Oct 29, 2025, 04:23 PM UTC
Affected Users: All Region: All customers in all regions Microsoft Azure appears to be heavily impacted and everything points to this as the cause of the outage: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status. We will follow any development we can while this persist. The next update will be provided at 9 pm CEST, unless cause is found before then, in which case we will update immediately. Major Outage Definition: A component is unavailable for all users. Affects the up-time calculation 100%.
- identified Oct 29, 2025, 07:18 PM UTC
The platform remains unavailable at this time, and we are continuing to monitor closely until full functionality is restored. Microsoft has deployed a fix for the ongoing Azure outage, and they are reporting gradual recovery across their services: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status The next update will be provided at 10 pm CEST, unless the issue is resolved before then.
- monitoring Oct 29, 2025, 08:39 PM UTC
Microsoft has deployed a fix for the ongoing Azure outage and reports continued recovery across their services: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status. Our platform is now operational again, but users may still experience disturbances or degraded performance while Microsoft's services stabilize. We continue to monitor the situation closely. Next update will be provided when more relevant information is available.
- resolved Oct 30, 2025, 07:27 AM UTC
Affected Users: All Users - Worldwide After monitoring the implemented solution by Microsoft, the major outage has been resolved. AskCody has been operational ever since the initial solution was deployed by Microsoft. More information can be found on Microsoft's incident history page: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/history.