Fitabase incident
Some Fitbit profiles delay beginning their synchronizing of data on connection.
Fitabase experienced a minor incident on October 11, 2024 affecting Fitbit Syncing, lasting 179d 22h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- monitoring Oct 11, 2024, 10:22 PM UTC
When a new Fitbit profile is connected to a Fitabase participant portal, regular data delivery may be delayed to Fitabase by as much as 12 hours. We have identified examples of situations where Fitbit's subscription service is correctly registered by 3rd party applications, but does not immediately begin. In this scenario our dashboards will show "No Device Sync Yet" even though the profile is set up correctly. Once the delay passes, syncing does appear to follow normal behavior. Important note to customers: While we investigate this, be assured that we do not see any opportunity for data loss as the data is being correctly delivered to Fitbit's servers. The delay is the notifications that Fitabase needs to receive to trigger our timely synchronization. All examples of this have self-corrected after a number of hours and all unpulled data was correctly retrieved.
- resolved Apr 09, 2025, 08:26 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.