Red Sift UK incident

Internal networking issues impacting our systems

Resolved after 48 minutes, on July 10, 2025.

postmortem Jul 10, 2025, 09:40 AM UTC

At 08:35 UTC we detected an issue with network connectivity on 2 nodes that were part of DNS and traffic routing infrastructure which caused disruption. Further investigation revealed that on 2 of our nodes networking was unstable - e.g. packet loss, no stable DNAT and so on. The reason was identified as the overlay networking \(flannel\) which wasn't correctly set the DNAT/SNAT rules on the pods running on those nodes The monitors have been properly triggered, and the offending components identified and restarted. 9:23 UTC - all nodes were fully operational. Incident was closed.

Started
Jul 10, 2025, 08:35 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 10, 2025, 09:23 AM UTC
Duration
48m
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 10, 2025, 08:35 AM UTC

Update timeline

  1. resolved Jul 10, 2025, 09:39 AM UTC

    There was an internal networking issue which briefly impact our web tools, and our API

  2. postmortem Jul 10, 2025, 09:40 AM UTC

    At 08:35 UTC we detected an issue with network connectivity on 2 nodes that were part of DNS and traffic routing infrastructure which caused disruption. Further investigation revealed that on 2 of our nodes networking was unstable - e.g. packet loss, no stable DNAT and so on. The reason was identified as the overlay networking \(flannel\) which wasn't correctly set the DNAT/SNAT rules on the pods running on those nodes The monitors have been properly triggered, and the offending components identified and restarted. 9:23 UTC - all nodes were fully operational. Incident was closed.

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