Makeswift incident

Increase in API error rate

Resolved after 2 hours 7 minutes, affecting API, on May 20, 2026.

investigating May 20, 2026, 08:57 AM UTC

We had a large spike in traffic, which caused brief saturation of our Redis instance and database. We then identified a hole in our rate limiting (which has now been patched). A blog post will follow. Thank you for your patience!

Started
May 20, 2026, 06:50 AM UTC
Resolved
May 20, 2026, 08:58 AM UTC
Duration
2h 7m
Detected by Pingoru
May 20, 2026, 06:50 AM UTC

Affected components

API

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 20, 2026, 06:50 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. investigating May 20, 2026, 08:57 AM UTC

    We had a large spike in traffic, which caused brief saturation of our Redis instance and database. We then identified a hole in our rate limiting (which has now been patched). A blog post will follow. Thank you for your patience!

  3. resolved May 20, 2026, 08:58 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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