Xink incident

US: Image service is unavailable

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Xink experienced a notice incident on January 11, 2022 affecting Images, lasting 4h 50m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jan 11, 2022, 03:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Jan 11, 2022, 07:50 PM UTC
Duration
4h 50m
Detected by Pingoru
Jan 11, 2022, 03:00 PM UTC

Affected components

Images

Update timeline

  1. resolved Jan 11, 2022, 07:57 PM UTC

    Starting at about 7pm (UTC) some clients were unable to see images in their signature. Xink Image service become unreachable. Summary of the issue and RCA: There was a burst of requests to a web server, presumably after holidays, adding a pick load on the web server. As a result web server become unavailable for the period of automatic scaling up, producing Error 500. Quick manual system update, along with software patches resolved the issue at about 7:26pm (UTC).