Factbird incident
Degraded application experience resulting in 504 errors
Factbird experienced a major incident on March 12, 2025 affecting User Interface and API Service, lasting –. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
User InterfaceAPI Service
Update timeline
- resolved Mar 12, 2025, 10:39 AM UTC
This morning (CET), our backend encountered service timeouts due to a specific service/application usage pattern, resulting in a ripple effect that impacted a large number of Factbird users. The issue stemmed from a change implemented on March 11th, intended to enhance overall performance. For now, we have disabled the change and are actively assessing solutions to mitigate the ripple effect it caused.