Smart Recruiters incident
Microsoft Azure Downtime - SmartAttrax Career Sites Impacted
Smart Recruiters experienced a major incident on October 29, 2025 affecting SmartAttrax - Career Sites, lasting 18h 1m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Oct 29, 2025, 04:26 PM UTC
SmartAttrax Career Sites are currently not loading or loading only partially due to the Microsoft Azure downtime. Our engineers are working on a temporary workaround until the issue is resolved by Microsoft Azure.
- identified Oct 29, 2025, 04:30 PM UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- identified Oct 29, 2025, 04:50 PM UTC
Our engineers implemented a workaround solution, and SmartAttrax career sites should now be loading. They might still be slow, and some site components might be loading only partially until Microsoft Azure resolves the problem.
- identified Oct 29, 2025, 05:18 PM UTC
We are continuing to wait for Microsoft Azure's fix to be delivered. They have identified the issue and are working on it.
- identified Oct 29, 2025, 06:17 PM UTC
Some SmartAttrax career sites continue to load slowly due to the Microsoft Azure downtime. Their engineering team is actively working on the fix, and we are closely monitoring their status page for more updates.
- identified Oct 29, 2025, 07:18 PM UTC
Microsoft Azure Team has begun rolling out the fix, but SmartAttrax career sites might continue to be slow until the fix is fully deployed.
- identified Oct 29, 2025, 09:17 PM UTC
SmartAttrax career sites might continue to run slowly until Microsoft Azure finishes the fix rollout. They expect the full recovery to happen within the next 2-3 hours.
- monitoring Oct 30, 2025, 07:19 AM UTC
Microsoft Azure rolled out the fix, and we are monitoring results. Some career sites might still experience slowness, we are checking on this.
- monitoring Oct 30, 2025, 08:56 AM UTC
The Microsoft Azure incident is still having a knock-on effect on our app services, which results in some SmartAttrax career sites running slowly. We continue to monitor Microsoft Azure efforts to mitigate this issue.
- monitoring Oct 30, 2025, 09:10 AM UTC
The issue should be resolved now, and all SmartAttrax careers sites should be operating normally.
- resolved Oct 30, 2025, 10:27 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.