Outage in Fivetran

Fivetran: Sync Failures on PayPal Transaction Tables Due to API Rate Limiting

Resolved Minor
August 03, 2025 - Started 2 days ago - Lasted about 21 hours
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Outage Details

We have identified that the the failures are occurring on transaction-related tables (TRANSACTION, BALANCE, INCENTIVE, etc.) due to persistent rate limiting from the PayPal API endpoint /v1/reporting/transactions.
Components affected
Fivetran Paypal
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RESOLVED about 24 hours ago - at 08/04/2025 08:38AM

This incident has been resolved. We have observed that instance rates are returning to normal levels, and affected connectors are syncing successfully.

Incident Summary

Description:
We encountered an issue where PayPal connectors started failing due to an API rate limit issue

Timeline:
The issue started on Aug 03, 2025, at 08:30 UTC and was resolved on Aug 03, 2025, at 15:19 UTC

Cause:
The issue was caused due to sustained rate limiting from the source API endpoint (/v1/reporting/transactions) for all transaction-related tables (e.g, TRANSACTION and BALANCE).

Resolution:
We have initially disabled the balance endpoint to fix the issue. Later, we re-enabled the balance endpoint and added a logic to handle the rate limit more gracefully (Using ProActive Rate Limit and rescheduling the sync for 1 hour when rate limits are encountered) in order to resolve the issue.

MONITORING 1 day ago - at 08/03/2025 03:12PM

We have raised a fix to disable the affected endpoint "Balance" and we are monitoring the results.

IDENTIFIED 2 days ago - at 08/03/2025 11:15AM

We have identified that the the failures are occurring on transaction-related tables (TRANSACTION, BALANCE, INCENTIVE, etc.) due to persistent rate limiting from the PayPal API endpoint /v1/reporting/transactions.

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