Form3 Staging incident
INC #27965 - Degradation to Bacs Simulator
Form3 Staging experienced a minor incident on December 6, 2021 affecting Bacs - Direct Participant, lasting 1h 29m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Dec 06, 2021, 12:30 PM UTC
We have identified an issue impacting the Bacs simulator. Our engineers are currently investigating and further details will be posted as the investigation progresses
- resolved Dec 06, 2021, 01:59 PM UTC
The Bacs simulator has recovered and normal service has resumed as of 13:57 UTC. We will continue to monitor the service to ensure there is no ongoing impact. Further details will be included in the Post Mortem.
- postmortem Dec 08, 2021, 09:46 AM UTC
Form3 were alerted to latency in the Bacs simulator from 08:05-13:57 UTC, preventing payments reaching a final state. Investigations identified that a service needed to be reconfigured in the Staging environment. Once this was completed, all queued payments were processed. A period of monitoring confirmed no ongoing impact from 13:57 UTC and that all impacted payments reached the correct final state. Form3 continue to proactively monitor the Staging environment to identify service enhancements and to prevent impact to customer testing.