Simplr incident
Platform stopped processing events after new release deployment
Simplr experienced a major incident on September 21, 2021, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- resolved Sep 21, 2021, 07:24 PM UTC
Release reverted back
- postmortem Sep 21, 2021, 07:25 PM UTC
**Incident:** Platform unusable on 11/21/2021 between 11:00am - 12:15pm PDT **Timeline:** * Operations team reported platform sluggishness around 11:00 AM PDT * Problem resolved at 12:15 pm PDT after rolling back the release and killing long running DB queries **RCA:** A new slow query caused database to back up and platform stopped processing new events. Release was reverted back.