hireEZ incident

Performance issues searching candidate

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

hireEZ experienced a minor incident on December 10, 2025, lasting 23h 30m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Dec 10, 2025, 06:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 11, 2025, 05:30 PM UTC
Duration
23h 30m
Detected by Pingoru
Dec 10, 2025, 06:00 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. resolved Feb 17, 2026, 08:48 PM UTC

    During a planned database migration, we experienced sustained and escalating CPU spikes on the new primary database instance shortly after cutover. Despite scaling the infrastructure, adding replicas, creating missing indexes, deploying multiple hotfixes, and engaging appropriate support, performance issues persisted—ultimately traced to an improper index strategy and heavy update/truncate activity—leading to a full rollback to restore customer performance and stability.