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Outage in Forsta

Slowness on US SaaS site (author.us.confirmit.com), affecting Authoring, CATI

Resolved Major
October 01, 2026 - Started 13 days ago - Lasted about 2 hours
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

The Forsta US SaaS environment (author.us.confirmit.com) experienced approximately 1.6 hours of degraded performance affecting Authoring, CATI, CAWI, Studio designers, Survey designer, and Public APIs, with users encountering slow page loads, delayed responses, and intermittent issues saving and navigating. The Cloud Operations team resolved the incident at approximately 1:15 PM EDT by recycling the affected servers, which restored normal performance across all impacted services. Engineering continued monitoring for stability while investigating the root cause to prevent recurrence.

We are currently investigating reports of degraded performance on the US SaaS environment (author.us.confirmit.com) affecting both Authoring and CATI applications. Impact Users may experience: Slow page loads and delayed responses within Authoring Performance degradation when accessing or working within CATI Intermittent delays when saving, loading, or navigating between functions Next Update We will provide further updates as more information becomes available. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we work to restore normal performance.

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RESOLVED 13 days ago - at 10/01/2026 06:04PM

Following our previous updates, we are pleased to report that we have observed normal performance across the Forsta US SaaS environment for the past 45 minutes following the earlier server recycle. Authoring, CATI, and live survey page loading times are now operating at their expected speeds.

We will continue to monitor the system closely for the remainder of the day to ensure ongoing stability. In parallel, our engineering team is actively investigating to determine the underlying root cause of this incident and prevent future occurrences.

You can review the full incident history on our status page at Forsta Status.

Thank you for your patience and understanding while we worked to resolve this issue. If you experience any lingering performance concerns, please reply directly to Forsta Support at ForstaPlusSupport@forsta.com .

MONITORING 13 days ago - at 10/01/2026 05:42PM

We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

MONITORING 13 days ago - at 10/01/2026 05:22PM

At approximately 1:15 PM EDT, our Cloud Operations team recycled the affected servers. We are currently seeing improved performance and reduced latency across the US SaaS environment, including Authoring, CATI, and live survey page loading times.

We will continue to monitor the site closely for any further instances of performance degradation to ensure full stability has been restored. We appreciate your continued patience and will provide a final update once we are confident the issue is fully resolved.

INVESTIGATING 13 days ago - at 10/01/2026 05:00PM

Investigating - We are currently investigating reports of degraded performance on the Forsta US SaaS environment (author.us.confirmit.com).

Impact:
During this time, users and respondents may experience the following:

Delays in live survey page loading times.

Slow page loads and delayed responses within the Authoring application.

Performance degradation when accessing or working within CATI.

Intermittent delays when saving, loading, or navigating between functions.

Next Update:
Our engineering team is actively looking into the root cause as a high priority. We will provide further updates as more information becomes available or as soon as performance stabilizes.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we work to restore normal performance.

INVESTIGATING 13 days ago - at 10/01/2026 04:28PM

We are currently investigating reports of degraded performance on the US SaaS environment (author.us.confirmit.com) affecting both Authoring and CATI applications.

Impact

Users may experience:

Slow page loads and delayed responses within Authoring
Performance degradation when accessing or working within CATI
Intermittent delays when saving, loading, or navigating between functions

Next Update

We will provide further updates as more information becomes available.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we work to restore normal performance.

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