Beyond Identity incident

Intermittent authentication failures

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Beyond Identity experienced a major incident on June 7, 2022, lasting 2h 58m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jun 07, 2022, 07:06 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 07, 2022, 10:04 PM UTC
Duration
2h 58m
Detected by Pingoru
Jun 07, 2022, 07:06 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Jun 07, 2022, 07:06 PM UTC

    We identified an issue with the authentication service. The issue was fixed within minutes. The engineering team is monitoring the situation.

  2. monitoring Jun 07, 2022, 07:10 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  3. resolved Jun 07, 2022, 10:04 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  4. postmortem Jun 08, 2022, 04:03 PM UTC

    # Summary Intermittent authentication failures occurred between June 7th, 2022, at 1:06 pm \(CDT\) and 1:38 pm \(CDT\). # Cause A specific user action in a specific sequence caused the directory service to crash. The directory service recovered itself immediately. During the few seconds it took for the directory service to come back online, authentications failed. # Mitigation The site reliability engineering team instantly identified the root cause and prevented the sequence from being executed. The software engineering team implemented a permanent fix to the directory service to address the specific use case.