PostHog experienced a 14.8-hour incident where a sharp spike in query volume caused database overload, resulting in failed queries, dashboard loading errors, and event ingestion lag for customers in the US region. The team restarted affected services and adjusted application retry behavior to restore functionality, while continuing to monitor and investigate the underlying cause of the query volume spike.
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We're still looking into some spikes in query patterns that have been impacting ClickHouse. We've adjusted some retry behavior in our applications, which has alleviated some of the impact. We will continue monitoring until we have a clearer picture.
We're still seeing intermittent spikes and query failures. We are continuing to investigate the root cause. We're monitoring closely and engineers from multiple teams are working together to stabilize performance.
Problem: A sharp spike in query volume caused a surge in failed queries and high load on database hosts, leading to errors when loading dashboards and running queries.
Impact: Some customers in the US region could not load dashboards or run queries. Event ingestion lag also built up during the incident.
Cause: Still investigating
Steps to resolve: We restarted the affected service, which restored query and dashboard functionality. System metrics show recovery in progress, but we're keeping an eye on it and continuing to investigate.
We’re investigating reports of some queries and dashboards failing to load.
Event ingestion lag is also accumulating. Operators are currently investigating the root cause.
We’re investigating reports of some queries and dashboards failing to load.
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