# Firebolt: Critical incident: Engines may fail to start

**Summary:** Firebolt reported a critical incident in which engines could fail to start, beginning 2021-02-22 17:38 UTC and resolved at 2021-02-22 18:16 UTC, lasting 37 min. The vendor attributed it to a global Terraform/Hashicorp outage and stated that running engines should not be affected. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2021-02-22 17:38 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/dmkf5fqb60w3](https://stspg.io/dmkf5fqb60w3)
- [Company: Firebolt](https://rewindex.com/company/firebolt.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:147/tzd8fkxnn97c@6cc0b636bcf9
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

```diff
+ Engines may fail to start
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**2. Added: Impact**

```diff
+ critical
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**3. Added: Status**

```diff
+ resolved
```

**4. Added: Start time**

```diff
+ 2021-02-22 17:38 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

```diff
+ 2021-02-22 18:16 UTC
```

**6. Added: Affected components**

```diff
+ API, Engines, Firebolt Components - API, Firebolt Components - Engines, Firebolt Components - Web Application, Web Application
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**7. Added: Update** (identified) · 2021-02-22 17:38 UTC

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+ The issue has been identified and was caused by a global Terraform/Hashicorp outage.  Running engines should not be affected by this issue.
```

**8. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2021-02-22 18:16 UTC

```diff
+ This incident has been resolved.
```

## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2021-02-22 17:38 UTC | Critical incident: Engines may fail to start (this change) | outage |

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