Honeycomb outage, 1 May 2026

Query interuption due to database failover in the EU region

Started
Resolved
1 May 2026, 12:30 UTC - reported afterwards
Impact
Major

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At 12:50, our main database underwent an automated failover. This failover led to issues with some of our query engine connection pools, and caused queries to fail for roughly 10 minutes before self resolving.

1 May 2026, 12:30 UTC

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