HappyCo incident

Task Creation Category Dropdown Misplaced

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HappyCo experienced a major incident on August 13, 2024 affecting Management Portal and Report Access, lasting 3h 42m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 13, 2024, 04:44 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 13, 2024, 08:26 PM UTC
Duration
3h 42m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 13, 2024, 04:44 PM UTC

Affected components

Management Portal and Report Access

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 13, 2024, 04:44 PM UTC

    We have received reports of the category select dropdown displaying in the lower left-hand side of the screen, resulting in UX issues creating new tasks.

  2. identified Aug 13, 2024, 06:04 PM UTC

    We're reviewing recent code changes to identify the root cause of the issue.

  3. identified Aug 13, 2024, 06:37 PM UTC

    We've identified the changes in question, related to an upgrade of two external dependencies, which caused the rendering placement bug. We are in the process of releasing a hot-fix rolling back the version, which we've confirmed addresses the issue, with a resolution ETA of 3:15pm ET / 12:15pm PT.

  4. monitoring Aug 13, 2024, 08:24 PM UTC

    We've released a fix that addresses the mis-positioned category dropdown within Tasks.

  5. resolved Aug 13, 2024, 08:26 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  6. postmortem Aug 14, 2024, 10:20 PM UTC

    **Summary** A software change was deployed that introduced a bug impacting task creation. **Impacted Systems** Task creation via the Web UI was unusable due to a positioning bug that pushed category selection outside of the browser viewport. **Resolution** A patch was deployed effectively reversing the offending change, restoring functionality. **Timeline of Events** 1600 UTC: Issue reported 1841 UTC: Fix developed and tested 1916 UTC: Fix deployed and confirmed in staging 2010 UTC: Hotfix deployed to production resolving issue