Glean incident

Atlassian token request rate limiting

Resolved after 58 minutes, affecting Glean service, on March 25, 2026.

resolved Jul 14, 2026, 07:33 PM UTC

The issue of authentication errors for Jira and Confluence is now resolved. The root cause was an IP block from Atlassian which was triggered by a spike in the number of user token requests. We have worked with Atlassian to get the IP block removed. We have also made fixes to fail gracefully when Atlassian starts returning errors for auth requests.

Started
Mar 25, 2026, 06:40 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 25, 2026, 07:39 AM UTC
Duration
58m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 25, 2026, 06:40 AM UTC

Affected components

Glean service

Update timeline

  1. resolved Mar 25, 2026, 07:39 AM UTC

    The issue of authentication errors for Jira and Confluence is now resolved. The root cause was an IP block from Atlassian which was triggered by a spike in the number of user token requests. We have worked with Atlassian to get the IP block removed. We have also made fixes to fail gracefully when Atlassian starts returning errors for auth requests.

  2. resolved Jul 14, 2026, 07:33 PM UTC

    The issue of authentication errors for Jira and Confluence is now resolved. The root cause was an IP block from Atlassian which was triggered by a spike in the number of user token requests. We have worked with Atlassian to get the IP block removed. We have also made fixes to fail gracefully when Atlassian starts returning errors for auth requests.

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