Lightfoot incident
Drop in traffic from Lightfoot devices in-cab
Lightfoot experienced a minor incident on April 13, 2022 affecting Fleet Management Portal (my.lightfoot.co.uk) and Fleet Management API (data.lightfoot.co.uk), lasting 2h 4m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Apr 13, 2022, 11:44 AM UTC
We are currently experiencing a drop in traffic from in-cab Lightfoot devices to our servers. As a result, the tracking information displayed on the Fleet Management Portal may be out-of-date. The Lightfoot devices will retain their data and transmit this in when possible so that no data will be lost.
- identified Apr 13, 2022, 12:10 PM UTC
The issue has been identified as a cellular network outage, the network provider's urgent investigation is ongoing. Multiple IoT systems are known to be affected.
- monitoring Apr 13, 2022, 01:11 PM UTC
We are seeing traffic from devices flowing in again. There may still be a delay in real-time vehicle/driver positions on the Fleet Management portal while the Lightfoot servers work to clear the backlog of incoming data.
- monitoring Apr 13, 2022, 06:34 PM UTC
The Lightfoot servers have finished processing the backlog of data and everything is now back to normal, we apologise for any inconvenience caused.
- resolved Apr 13, 2022, 06:34 PM UTC
This issue is now resolved.