Discount Ninja incident

Infrastructure failure

Resolved after 5 hours 59 minutes, affecting Checkout API and Admin (App) and 1 more, on October 29, 2025.

resolved Oct 29, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC

Traffic to the Admin UI of the app has now also been rerouted to AWS. All features of the app are available again as of 5:55 PM EST.

Started
Oct 29, 2025, 04:17 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 29, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC
Duration
5h 59m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 29, 2025, 04:17 PM UTC

Affected components

Checkout APIAdmin (App)Promotion APIAdmin (Reports)Log APIProduct API

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 29, 2025, 04:17 PM UTC

    Access to the admin of the app is affected as well as live promotions. We are currently investigating the issue.

  2. identified Oct 29, 2025, 04:58 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified. Discount Ninja’s infrastructure runs on Microsoft Azure and uses Azure Front Door. Microsoft has confirmed a service disruption affecting Azure Front Door and is actively working on a fix.

  3. monitoring Oct 29, 2025, 08:23 PM UTC

    We’ve rerouted API traffic to AWS to bypass Microsoft Azure Front Door, which continues to experience issues. Public APIs are now available again, and promotions have been fully restored as of 3:30 PM EST. We’re still working on restoring access to the app’s admin interface.

  4. resolved Oct 29, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC

    Traffic to the Admin UI of the app has now also been rerouted to AWS. All features of the app are available again as of 5:55 PM EST.

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