Font Awesome incident

Slow responses from our GraphQL API

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Font Awesome experienced a critical incident on March 18, 2021 affecting api.fontawesome.com, lasting 11h 30m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 18, 2021, 09:35 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 18, 2021, 09:06 PM UTC
Duration
11h 30m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 18, 2021, 09:35 AM UTC

Affected components

api.fontawesome.com

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 18, 2021, 09:35 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. investigating Mar 18, 2021, 10:51 AM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. investigating Mar 18, 2021, 01:27 PM UTC

    The GraphQL API is experiencing increased load and we are having difficulty keeping response times down. We are fully focused on getting this service back up just as soon as we can.

  4. monitoring Mar 18, 2021, 05:45 PM UTC

    We have put in place some caching infrastructure. We will continue to monitor the API but at this point we are seeing all associated metrics behaving normally.

  5. resolved Mar 18, 2021, 09:06 PM UTC

    At this point we are in good shape. The API server is now behind Cloudflare's edge servers with an upgraded caching strategy. As a bonus, performance for cacheable queries will be a lot faster for anyone outside the U.S.