HiBob Outage History

HiBob experienced a major performance issue affecting their main application, causing slower-than-usual performance across multiple components including Talent, Compensation, Workforce-planning, Social, Job-architecture, Docs, Time & attendance, and Sandbox. The incident lasted 2.6 hours before system performance was restored and the issue was fully resolved with necessary fixes implemented.

The HiBob application experienced performance degradation for 1 hour due to resource contention and long-running database operations, causing elevated error rates, timeouts, and preventing the application from loading properly. The incident affected multiple components including Talent, Compensation, Payroll hub, API Gateway, and various integrations, with users reporting complete application failures and 504 error codes. The service was stabilized through mitigation actions targeting the database performance issues.

HiBob's main application experienced performance issues and timeouts affecting all major components including Talent, Payroll, API Gateway, and mobile app access, with users reporting slow loading or complete inability to access the platform. The incident was traced to a database maintenance activity performed during off-hours on Saturday, requiring a database rollback and restart to restore service. The issue was resolved after 2.7 hours following the rollback, database vacuum optimization, and monitoring to ensure stable performance across all services.