Factorial HR incident
Service outage caused by unresponsive database
Factorial HR experienced a critical incident on January 18, 2025 affecting API & backend, lasting 43m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
API & backend
Update timeline
- investigating Jan 18, 2025, 03:29 PM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue.
- identified Jan 18, 2025, 03:31 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- resolved Jan 18, 2025, 04:12 PM UTC
The lock has been cleared and the service has been restored. We will perform a more thorough investigation next week and set up the mechanisms and processes required to prevent this from happening again.