Outage in Helium

Packet Router Outage

Resolved Major
July 25, 2023 - Started about 1 year ago - Lasted about 7 hours
Official incident page

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Outage Details

The Helium Packet Routers started experiencing intermittent outage from 2:38PM PT due to misconfigured open file limit, the issue was resolved on 3:43 PT. The team is monitoring the incident as there still seem to be some loose ends. Will continue the update here.
Components affected
Helium Router
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED about 1 year ago - at 07/26/2023 06:12AM

The Packet Routers have been stable for the 2.5 hours. Marking this incident resolved and will follow up with post mortem.

IDENTIFIED about 1 year ago - at 07/26/2023 03:39AM

Starting 8:18PM PT, the U.S. Packet Routers are offline again. The core team hasn't identified the root cause yet as all server metrics were healthy up til the crash, we are going to reboot and remove a load optimization constraint.

MONITORING about 1 year ago - at 07/26/2023 01:46AM

The Packet Routers have been stable for the past hour. The core team will keep monitoring the incident.

IDENTIFIED about 1 year ago - at 07/26/2023 12:35AM

The U.S. Packet Routers have been rebooted. In the meantime, the core team is investigating the outage and will continue the update here.

IDENTIFIED about 1 year ago - at 07/26/2023 12:31AM

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

MONITORING about 1 year ago - at 07/26/2023 12:31AM

Starting 5:19PM PT, the U.S. Packet Routers are offline. The core team is investigating the outage and will continue the update here.

MONITORING about 1 year ago - at 07/25/2023 11:52PM

The Helium Packet Routers started experiencing intermittent outage from 2:38PM PT due to misconfigured open file limit, the issue was resolved on 3:43 PT.

The team is monitoring the incident as there still seem to be some loose ends. Will continue the update here.

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