The Lookout Way incident

Primary database disruption

Resolved after 1 hour, affecting Platform, on October 20, 2025.

postmortem Oct 21, 2025, 01:24 AM UTC

* Our cloud provider detected an infrastructure issue \(with the physical servers or network\) and automatically failed over to our standby database. * Service was read-only for approximately 15 minutes while database integrity was protected during the switchover. * Service has been fully restored. We have opened an high priority case with our cloud provider to confirm the root cause and will update. * ~~We do not believe this incident was related to the AWS US East outage; our systems run in AWS AP Southeast \(Sydney\).~~ * New information: We have been informed it is indeed related to the widespread AWS US East issue \(Likely their control plane\). We are continuing to work with our cloud provider.

Started
Oct 20, 2025, 10:53 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2025, 11:53 PM UTC
Duration
1h
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 10:53 PM UTC

Affected components

Platform

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 10:53 PM UTC

    We're aware of an issue affecting our primary database. Investigation is underway.

  2. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 11:00 PM UTC

    We're observing the recovery of the platform.

  3. resolved Oct 20, 2025, 11:53 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  4. postmortem Oct 21, 2025, 01:24 AM UTC

    * Our cloud provider detected an infrastructure issue \(with the physical servers or network\) and automatically failed over to our standby database. * Service was read-only for approximately 15 minutes while database integrity was protected during the switchover. * Service has been fully restored. We have opened an high priority case with our cloud provider to confirm the root cause and will update. * ~~We do not believe this incident was related to the AWS US East outage; our systems run in AWS AP Southeast \(Sydney\).~~ * New information: We have been informed it is indeed related to the widespread AWS US East issue \(Likely their control plane\). We are continuing to work with our cloud provider.

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