Exalate Outage History

**Incident:** Exalate Application Unavailability — March 16, 2026 **Duration:** 16:13 CET – 17:09 CET \(approximately 56 minutes\) **Impact:** The Exalate UI was inaccessible during this window. Issue synchronisation was not affected — integrations continued to run normally throughout. No data was lost. **Summary:** On March 16, 2026, the Exalate application became unavailable following a production infrastructure configuration change. A resource allocation adjustment applied to a critical authentication component proved insufficient under production load, causing repeated service interruptions. **Timeline:** * 16:13 CET — Issue reported, investigation initiated * 16:56 CET — Root cause identified, remediation initiated * 17:09 CET — Fix deployed, service restored * 18:13 CET — Full stability confirmed **Root Cause:** A resource limit adjustment deployed without cross-team review under-provisioned a critical authentication component. Under production load, the platform repeatedly terminated the component, rendering the application inaccessible. **Resolution:** Resource limits were corrected, restoring service. A further optimisation was applied during a subsequent scheduled maintenance window following joint engineering review. **Preventive Measures:** * All production infrastructure configuration changes now require joint sign-off from infrastructure and engineering leads before deployment * Resource and capacity parameters validated against production load baselines prior to deployment

**Date:** March 17, 2026 **Duration:** 12:10 CET - 15:00 CET \(2 hours, 50 minutes\) **Impact:** The [exalate.com](http://exalate.com) website was completely inaccessible to all users for the duration of the incident. **Summary:** The hosting environment experienced resource exhaustion triggered by a sudden surge in web traffic. This was further exacerbated by a malfunctioning security plugin. **Timeline:** 12:10 CET: Incident start \(resource exhaustion begins\) 12:28 CET: Issue detected 14:40 CET: Root cause identified 15:00 CET: Service fully restored **Root Cause:** A spike in unique visitors has led to resource depletion on the hosting server. During the investigation, it was discovered that an installed security plugin was behaving inefficiently under high load, significantly compounding the CPU and memory usage, preventing the server from recovering. **Resolution:** Identified and blocked specific IP addresses responsible for an anomalous volume of requests. Deactivated and removed the problematic security plugin. Implemented an alternative solution to handle the plugin's core functionality without the performance overhead. **Preventive Measures:** Investigate and implement automated rate-limiting and IP blocking solutions \(e.g., WAF rules\) to handle traffic spikes.

**Incident:** Exalate Cloud Service Disruption - March 9, 2026 **Duration:** 07:30 CET – 08:10 CET \(approximately 40 minutes\) **Impact:** Some Exalate Cloud nodes experienced temporary service disruption. Database write operations were briefly affected. Issue synchronisation resumed automatically once the issue was resolved. No data was lost. **Summary:** On March 9, 2026, the primary database instance serving part of the Exalate Cloud infrastructure reached full storage capacity. This prevented the database from processing write operations, temporarily impacting node availability. **Timeline:** * 07:30 CET - Issue detected, investigation initiated * 08:05 CET - Storage expanded, database operations resumed * 08:10 CET - Fix verified, nodes confirmed operational * 10:00 CET - Full stability confirmed after extended monitoring **Root Cause:** The primary database storage volume gradually reached full capacity under normal operational growth. Proactive storage monitoring did not fire in time. **Resolution:** Database storage was expanded and the service returned to full operation automatically. Additional alerting configured.