Expel incident

Workbench Availability due to Database Issue

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Expel experienced a critical incident on July 17, 2026 affecting Workbench global network connectivity and Investigative actions and 1 more component, lasting 40m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jul 17, 2026, 02:21 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 17, 2026, 03:01 AM UTC
Duration
40m
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 17, 2026, 02:21 AM UTC

Affected components

Workbench global network connectivityInvestigative actionsWorkbench loginFile uploadsDashboards

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jul 17, 2026, 02:21 AM UTC

    At 9:58pm EDT, we began experiencing a problem with the Workbench database that is preventing users from accessing Workbench. We will provide an update by 11pm EDT.

  2. monitoring Jul 17, 2026, 02:34 AM UTC

    We have implemented a fix and believe the incident to be resolved. We are monitoring the health of the infrastructure and will resolve this if there are no outstanding issues. Please let us know if you are experiencing any problems.

  3. resolved Jul 17, 2026, 03:01 AM UTC

    The incident has been resolved, and all systems are once again fully available. No customer data was lost; SOC operations were impacted, but are back to normal.