Flatfile incident

Intermittent job failures

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Flatfile experienced a minor incident on March 6, 2025 affecting Platform API and Spaces, lasting 1h 47m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 06, 2025, 04:57 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 06, 2025, 06:45 PM UTC
Duration
1h 47m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 06, 2025, 04:57 PM UTC

Affected components

Platform APISpaces

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 06, 2025, 04:57 PM UTC

    We are seeing some jobs intermittently fail, like file extractions. We are investigating now.

  2. monitoring Mar 06, 2025, 05:12 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. monitoring Mar 06, 2025, 05:12 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  4. investigating Mar 06, 2025, 05:26 PM UTC

    We are seeing these errors start to recur, investigating now!

  5. monitoring Mar 06, 2025, 05:49 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  6. resolved Mar 06, 2025, 06:45 PM UTC

    As a result of a traffic spike the database connection pool was overwhelmed. We will be updating our rate limiting algorithm to account for this particular type of traffic.