Showbie incident
Performance issues on Showbie Core impacting Annotations
Showbie experienced a major incident on September 10, 2025 affecting Showbie Core, lasting 7h 51m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Showbie Core
Update timeline
- monitoring Sep 12, 2025, 03:11 PM UTC
Showbie is experiencing issues with some users reporting issues saving annotations. Our team is working to resolve these issues. We are sorry for the impact this is having on our end-users and appreciate your patience.
- resolved Sep 12, 2025, 03:12 PM UTC
Showbie is online and this issue has now been resolved. Thank you for your patience.
- postmortem Sep 12, 2025, 03:13 PM UTC
A system scaling issue occurred impacting Showbie Core resulting in the site becoming unresponsive and users being unable to save annotations. The auto scaling scripts were updated to ensure this does happen again.