Outage in PostHog

API Query endpoint intermittently 500'ing

Resolved Minor
April 17, 2025 - Started 6 days ago - Lasted 5 days
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Outage Details

The API query endpoint is throwing intermittent 500 errors due to capacity limits on our end. We are working to fix this on our end and make the errors more clear. If known valid queries are failing with 500s, we recommend retrying queries with exponential backoff.
Components affected
PostHog App
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RESOLVED 2 days ago - at 04/22/2025 08:50AM

This incident was resolved over the weekend.

MONITORING 6 days ago - at 04/17/2025 10:59PM

We've shed load and haven't seen errors re-occur yet. We'll continue monitoring this over the weekend.

INVESTIGATING 6 days ago - at 04/17/2025 07:56PM

The API query endpoint is throwing intermittent 500 errors due to capacity limits on our end. We are working to fix this on our end and make the errors more clear.
If known valid queries are failing with 500s, we recommend retrying queries with exponential backoff.

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