PostHog incident

Insights alerts are not being triggered

Resolved after 17 hours 17 minutes, affecting EU Cloud 🇪🇺 (App (Web & Desktop)), on September 9, 2026.

monitoring Sep 09, 2026, 06:56 PM UTC

All but a handful of alerts are caught up. We're working to get those alerts processed now and continuing to monitor. For almost all customers there should be no impact at this time.

Started
Sep 09, 2026, 05:49 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 09, 2026, 11:06 PM UTC
Duration
17h 17m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 09, 2026, 05:49 AM UTC

Affected components

EU Cloud 🇪🇺 (App (Web & Desktop))

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 09, 2026, 12:32 PM UTC

    Alerts on insights are not being sent, the team is investigating

  2. identified Sep 09, 2026, 01:10 PM UTC

    We’ve identified that the EU insight alert scheduler is getting overloaded by an unbounded batch of due alerts, which can cause scheduler runs to time out and prevent new alert checks from being scheduled. We have a mitigation ready in PR #97378: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/pull/97378. This is intended to let the EU cluster drain the backlog gradually once deployed.

  3. monitoring Sep 09, 2026, 03:21 PM UTC

    The fix to unblock the backlog is now deployed and in-progress. We're continuing to monitor the issue.

  4. monitoring Sep 09, 2026, 06:56 PM UTC

    All but a handful of alerts are caught up. We're working to get those alerts processed now and continuing to monitor. For almost all customers there should be no impact at this time.

  5. resolved Sep 09, 2026, 11:06 PM UTC

    The fix has been fully deployed, and alerts on insights are back to normal.

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