Jira Product Discovery incident

All Jira products experiencing degradations

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Jira Product Discovery experienced a major incident on May 20, 2025 affecting Open projects and Create and delete fields and 1 more component, lasting 10h 27m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 20, 2025, 02:14 PM UTC
Resolved
May 21, 2025, 12:42 AM UTC
Duration
10h 27m
Detected by Pingoru
May 20, 2025, 02:14 PM UTC

Affected components

Open projectsCreate and delete fieldsAdd/view data points ("Capture")

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 20, 2025, 02:14 PM UTC

    We are investigating cases of degraded performance for all Jira Work Management, Jira Service Management, Jira, and Jira Product Discovery Cloud customers. We will provide more details within the next hour.

  2. investigating May 20, 2025, 04:37 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate issues with the Jira degradation and will provide updates as we learn more.

  3. investigating May 20, 2025, 06:25 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate an issue that is disrupting access to core Jira functionality for a limited number of Jira customers. We will provide an update when we have identified a fix.

  4. resolved May 21, 2025, 12:42 AM UTC

    Deployment of the fix for this issue has now completed rolling out and this should be resolved for all users.

  5. postmortem Jun 02, 2025, 03:29 AM UTC

    ### Summary On May 20, 2025, between 13:10 UTC and 22:12 UTC, a small subset of Atlassian customers using Jira Software and Jira Service Management products were unable to access certain functionality, such as creating, viewing, or editing boards, issues, filters, and Jira Service Management requests. The root cause was data duplication in our software related to upgrades of \(non-faulty\) third party apps. The incident was detected within 4 minutes by Automated Monitoring, and mitigated through the subsequent 8 hours and 58 mins. Factors that prolonged the impact of the incident included: * An attempt to mitigate the issue by disabling the \(non-faulty\) apps was ineffective because the disablement mechanism was not integrated with the affected data source * Attempts to manually rectify the data in the database were hampered by the binary storage format used for the data \(necessary for performance reasons\) ### **IMPACT** During the impact period stated above, Jira Software and Jira Service Desk sites that had a specific version of the third party apps installed were impacted. For the duration of the incident, functionality such as creating, viewing, or editing of boards, issues, filters, and Jira Service Management requests was unavailable on those sites. ### **ROOT CAUSE** During the process of version upgrade for the third party apps with dynamic modules, duplicated data was left behind due to a bug in Atlassian systems triggered during a prior upgrade. ### **REMEDIAL ACTIONS PLAN & NEXT STEPS** We know that outages impact your productivity. While we have a number of testing and preventative processes in place, this specific issue wasn’t identified during development because of the specific sequence of events required to trigger the latent duplicate data to impact the product’s functioning. We are prioritizing the following improvement actions to avoid repeating this type of incident: * Detecting and repairing duplicated data at the source * Updating the faulty “write” subsystem to prevent further duplication of data Furthermore, we are taking steps to enable swifter mitigation should such an incident occur in the future. We are: * Enhancing app disablement tooling \(and its documentation\) to make it simple and effective to deploy against this class of issue * Enhancing validation of the app upgrade process * Developing an affordance for viewing, repairing, and modifying specific app data We apologize to customers whose services were impacted during this incident; we are taking immediate steps to improve the platform’s performance and availability. Thanks, Atlassian Customer Support