DoorDash incident

Drive API error spike

Resolved after 18 minutes, affecting Drive API, on August 5, 2025.

resolved Aug 05, 2025, 07:28 PM UTC

This incident has been resolved. From 11:42 to 11:48, 12:02 to 12:10 we had two API 500 error spikes caused by internal DB outage. During the incident 7% of Drive Classic requests got impacted; and 25% of Drive API requests got impacted. Retries during the time would have worked if the clients have retry logic.

Started
Aug 05, 2025, 07:10 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 05, 2025, 07:28 PM UTC
Duration
18m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 05, 2025, 07:10 PM UTC

Affected components

Drive API

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 05, 2025, 07:10 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. investigating Aug 05, 2025, 07:18 PM UTC

    We have recovered and root causing the error spikes.

  3. monitoring Aug 05, 2025, 07:22 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. monitoring Aug 05, 2025, 07:27 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  5. resolved Aug 05, 2025, 07:28 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved. From 11:42 to 11:48, 12:02 to 12:10 we had two API 500 error spikes caused by internal DB outage. During the incident 7% of Drive Classic requests got impacted; and 25% of Drive API requests got impacted. Retries during the time would have worked if the clients have retry logic.

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