Flagsmith outage, 5 September 2023
Core API is not responding
- Started
- Resolved
- 5 Sept 2023, 12:01 UTC
- Impact
- Critical
- Affected
- Admin API
Last update from Flagsmith
**Summary** On September 5th at 09:45 UTC, we initiated a release that included a database migration aimed at introducing a new constraint to the table containing information related to flags. According to our pre-live tests, this task should not have taken more than 50 milliseconds. Unfortunately, during the release to production, due to the high throughput on a particular table that it needed to acquire a temporary lock on, this caused a backlog of blocked connections waiting on the migration to complete. This caused a knock on effect that exhausted the connections on the database and a full restart was necessary. Once the restart was complete, the connections were restored and service w...
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