Resolved after 20 minutes, affecting Pinpoint, on March 19, 2026.
**Date:** 19 March 2026 **Duration:** Approximately 35 minutes \(11:46 to 12:21 UTC\). ### What Happened Pinpoint experienced a service outage beginning at approximately 11:46 UTC on 19 March. Users were unable to access the platform and received 503 errors. Full service was restored by approximately 12:21 UTC. No data was lost or corrupted. ### Timeline \(UTC\) * **11:46** - Automated monitoring alerts triggered for service unavailability. * **11:47** - Engineering team began investigating. * **12:01** - Status page updated to reflect the incident. * **12:10** - Root cause identified as a database firewall misconfiguration introduced during an infrastructure change. * **12:20** - Fix applied; service restored. * **12:21** - Incident marked as resolved. ### Why It Happened During an infrastructure configuration change, a database firewall rule was inadvertently applied with an overly restrictive scope. This prevented our application servers from connecting to the primary database, causing all requests to fail. ### What We're Doing About It * **Immediate fix:** The firewall configuration has been corrected and verified. * **Hardening:** We are making production database firewall rules explicitly immutable and tightening API token permissions to prevent unexpected firewall modifications. We sincerely apologise for the disruption and appreciate your patience.
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- investigating Mar 19, 2026, 12:01 PM UTC
We’re aware of a current issue causing 503 errors and are investigating urgently.
- resolved Mar 19, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC
This has been resolved. A full post mortem will follow soon.
- postmortem Mar 19, 2026, 01:37 PM UTC
**Date:** 19 March 2026 **Duration:** Approximately 35 minutes \(11:46 to 12:21 UTC\). ### What Happened Pinpoint experienced a service outage beginning at approximately 11:46 UTC on 19 March. Users were unable to access the platform and received 503 errors. Full service was restored by approximately 12:21 UTC. No data was lost or corrupted. ### Timeline \(UTC\) * **11:46** - Automated monitoring alerts triggered for service unavailability. * **11:47** - Engineering team began investigating. * **12:01** - Status page updated to reflect the incident. * **12:10** - Root cause identified as a database firewall misconfiguration introduced during an infrastructure change. * **12:20** - Fix applied; service restored. * **12:21** - Incident marked as resolved. ### Why It Happened During an infrastructure configuration change, a database firewall rule was inadvertently applied with an overly restrictive scope. This prevented our application servers from connecting to the primary database, causing all requests to fail. ### What We're Doing About It * **Immediate fix:** The firewall configuration has been corrected and verified. * **Hardening:** We are making production database firewall rules explicitly immutable and tightening API token permissions to prevent unexpected firewall modifications. We sincerely apologise for the disruption and appreciate your patience.
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