Honeycomb outage, 31 July 2026
Querying issues
- Started
- Resolved
- 31 Jul 2026, 14:30 UTC - reported afterwards
- Impact
- Minor
Last update from Honeycomb
Starting at 9:50 AM Central Time on July 31st we received alerts around querying health and latency. The cause was eventually tracked down to a clash of two different factors. First, we have been introducing Lambda Managed Instances \(LMI\) into our query architecture, which behave similar to classic lambdas in many ways and had been introduced as part of work around querying performance improvements with the goal of a better and faster user experience. Unfortunately, a difference between classic lambdas and LMIs we discovered is the 15 minute hard stop of classic lambdas does not exist on LMIs, which means that certain assumptions built into our querying system no longer held. At the time o...
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