mastodon.social experienced a minor incident on July 6, 2023, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- resolved Jul 06, 2023, 07:03 PM UTC
Type: Incident Duration: 5 hours and 56 minutes Affected Components: Background queues, Website & API Jul 6, 19:03:08 GMT+0 - Investigating - The database is currently experience extremely high load. We are currently investigating the cause. Jul 6, 19:42:34 GMT+0 - Identified - The increase in database load is likely the result of significantly increased user traffic over the last several days, revealing inefficiencies in some of our database background jobs. We are implementing fixes, both temporary and long-term. Jul 6, 19:59:21 GMT+0 - Monitoring - Database performance has returned to normal. Jul 7, 00:58:54 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.