Helium incident

Packet Router Rollout

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Helium experienced a minor incident on May 5, 2023 affecting Helium Packet Router, lasting 3h 39m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 05, 2023, 02:03 AM UTC
Resolved
May 05, 2023, 05:42 AM UTC
Duration
3h 39m
Detected by Pingoru
May 05, 2023, 02:03 AM UTC

Affected components

Helium Packet Router

Update timeline

  1. monitoring May 05, 2023, 02:03 AM UTC

    The core team is rolling out packet routers across all regions to optimize GRPC process leaks. Data transfer may be temporarily unstable during the rollout. Should stabilize within 30 minutes.

  2. monitoring May 05, 2023, 04:01 AM UTC

    Based on the monitoring, the core team has begun rollback on the packet routers due to high memory usage.

  3. monitoring May 05, 2023, 04:02 AM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  4. monitoring May 05, 2023, 04:33 AM UTC

    The core team has been monitoring the rollback for almost 1hr and packet routers have stabilized. We will monitor them for 1 more hour before resolving the incident.

  5. resolved May 05, 2023, 05:42 AM UTC

    Based on the monitoring, all packet routers have fully stabilized.