Degraded search and Assistant performance

Update timeline

1. identified Dec 13, 2025, 12:45 PM UTC

   Status: Identified Our team has identified the issue of search functionality intermittently being degraded due to search engine failures. Impact - Degraded Assistant Performance - Higher latency search - Degraded MCP

2. monitoring Dec 13, 2025, 12:51 PM UTC

   Status: Monitoring Updates to search indexes have been paused. This has lead to searches to succeed, however site indexes may not be slightly out of date. Impact - Out of date search indexes

3. resolved Dec 13, 2025, 06:51 PM UTC

   Status: Resolved Search pipeline is no longer backed up. Updates will resume to be at their usual cadence.

4. resolved Dec 13, 2025, 08:00 PM UTC

   Status: Resolved The ingestion queue is flushed. Search indexes will be updated at the usual pace

5. resolved Feb 17, 2026, 07:24 PM UTC

   Status: Resolved Github has resolved their incident with increased 401 errors on github

6. resolved Feb 19, 2026, 08:22 AM UTC

   Status: Resolved The fix has been deployed and the assistant should now work as expected.

7. resolved Feb 19, 2026, 03:22 PM UTC

   Status: Resolved The fix has been deployed and the assistant should now work as expected.

8. resolved Feb 19, 2026, 03:22 PM UTC

   Status: Resolved The fix has been deployed and the assistant should now work as expected.

9. resolved Feb 19, 2026, 03:23 PM UTC

   Status: Resolved The fix has been deployed and the assistant should now work as expected.