CodeTwo incident

[UK South] Email processing issues

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

CodeTwo experienced a minor incident on September 14, 2020 affecting Mail flow and Signature adding (rules processing) and 1 more component, lasting 4h 17m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Sep 14, 2020, 02:16 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 14, 2020, 06:33 PM UTC
Duration
4h 17m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 14, 2020, 02:16 PM UTC

Affected components

Mail flowSignature adding (rules processing)Signature management (app.codetwo.com)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 14, 2020, 02:16 PM UTC

    A subset of users may experience email processing delays due to Azure availability issues in the region. We're currently investigating this issue.

  2. investigating Sep 14, 2020, 02:23 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. identified Sep 14, 2020, 02:43 PM UTC

    Microsoft has confirmed performance issues of Microsoft Azure services in UK South. In the meantime, we have enabled secondary services in a different region to process the delayed messages. These messages are now queued and will soon be delivered.

  4. identified Sep 14, 2020, 03:03 PM UTC

    While the emails are being processed via secondary services, we are actively monitoring the situation in UK South. For more info, see: https://status.azure.com/en-us/status

  5. monitoring Sep 14, 2020, 05:12 PM UTC

    Microsoft reported that the issue was caused by a cooling failure. As a result, Azure Storage, Networking and Compute resources were shut down as part of an automated processes to preserve the equipment and prevent damage. Currently the Microsoft engineering team is focused on bringing the networking devices back online, whereas CodeTwo DevOps Teams are actively monitoring this process.

  6. resolved Sep 14, 2020, 06:33 PM UTC

    All CodeTwo services are operational, but we are actively monitoring this geo as Microsoft has not resolved their cooling failure yet.