FOSSA incident

Sustained High Database Load

Major Resolved View vendor source →

FOSSA experienced a major incident on July 13, 2023 affecting app.fossa.com and Quick Import and 1 more component, lasting 2h 47m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jul 13, 2023, 03:40 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 13, 2023, 06:27 PM UTC
Duration
2h 47m
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 13, 2023, 03:40 PM UTC

Affected components

app.fossa.comQuick ImportLicensingCLIVulnerabilitiesIssue scanningQualityReport generationAPIThird-party integrations

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jul 13, 2023, 03:40 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating high database load which is impacting UI performance.

  2. investigating Jul 13, 2023, 04:11 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. investigating Jul 13, 2023, 04:28 PM UTC

    We are continuing the investigation. Due to the database load affecting potentially other components, we are widening the scope of the outage to "partial outage" on all components interacting with the database

  4. identified Jul 13, 2023, 04:38 PM UTC

    We believe to have identified a potential cause for the DB load and will be attempting a remediation.

  5. identified Jul 13, 2023, 04:59 PM UTC

    We are continuing remediation efforts based on the previously likely identified cause.

  6. identified Jul 13, 2023, 05:39 PM UTC

    We are continuing remediation efforts based on the previously likely identified cause.

  7. identified Jul 13, 2023, 05:41 PM UTC

    We are proceeding with a database restart, which will trigger a temporary maintenance mode across the platform.

  8. monitoring Jul 13, 2023, 06:14 PM UTC

    We are out of maintenance mode and are now monitoring.

  9. resolved Jul 13, 2023, 06:27 PM UTC

    We've resolved the incident on the backend and functionality has been restored. We will continue to monitor and make improvements in our response.