DatoCMS incident
🛠️ Scheduled database maintenance [ ⚠️ DOWNTIME REQUIRED ] - EDITED
DatoCMS experienced a major incident on January 26, 2025, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- resolved Jan 26, 2025, 04:49 PM UTC
Completed — The monitoring phase has ended Verifying — Maintenance is completed. The environments are now in write mode. We are monitoring the situation. In progress — The required downtime is over. Now the environments will be in read-only mode for the rest of the maintenance window. In progress — Maintenance is starting now. In progress — Pre maintenance restrictions now apply The following operations will return 403 errors throughout the maintenance period: Creating sandbox environments Destroying sandbox environments Project duplication Project deletion Scheduled — 🔄 Based on your feedback, we have revised our maintenance approach to minimize service disruption Key Changes: Reduced downtime: system will only be offline for the first 10 minutes (starting at 09:00 UTC) After the initial 10-minute downtime, services will be available in read-only mode for the remaining 50 minutes Total duration increased from 45 to 60 minutes Please refer to the maintenance schedule and impact sections above for complete details. Thank you for your understanding. Scheduled — We will be performing critical database maintenance that will affect our services. 📅 Timeline: Pre-maintenance restrictions begin: January 26, 2025 08:45 UTC Full maintenance window begins: January 26, 2025 09:00 UTC Full maintenance window expected duration: 60 minutes ⚠️ Service Restrictions (Starting 08:45 UTC): The following operations will return 403 errors throughout the maintenance period: Creating sandbox environments Destroying sandbox environments Project duplication Project deletion ⚠️ Full Maintenance Impact (Starting 09:00 UTC): Phase 1 - System Downtime (First 10 minutes): Content Management API: Complete outage Content Delivery API: Complete outage (cached CDN requests will still work) Admin Interface: Complete outage Assets URLs: Fully functional Phase 2 - Restricted Access (Remaining duration): The system will return online with all environments in maintenance mode: Read operations: Fully functional Write operations: Temporarily disabled, returning 403 errors for operations including content updates, schema changes, upload management, all other write operations on environments. We will provide more status updates during the maintenance window. Thank you for your understanding.