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Grain: Major incident: High Rate of Recorder Failure

Summary

Grain Recorder experienced a major outage starting 2025-03-19 17:22 UTC, with failures scheduling and booting new recorders; some meetings may not have been captured. Mitigation initially stabilized recording, but errors rose again. The incident was resolved at 2025-05-29 16:24 UTC, with a recorded duration of 70 days 23 h.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 94%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: High Rate of Recorder Failure
AddedImpact#2
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AddedStatus#3
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AddedStart time#4
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AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
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After: Our recording service is experiencing a high rate of failures, causing issues with scheduling and booting up new recorders. Some meetings may not be captured.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#8
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After: Mitigation efforts have brought the recording service to a stable place, we are monitoring for further issues and will be evaluating any possibilities for recovery of incorrectly handled recordings.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#9
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After: We've seen another uptick in errors after the top of the hour and new mitigations are being explored.
AddedUpdateresolved#10
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After: This incident has been resolved.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: High Rate of Recorder Failure (this change)
Grain Recorder experienced a major outage starting 2025-03-19 17:22 UTC, with failures scheduling and booting new recorders; some meetings may not have been captured. Mitigation initially stabilized recording, but errors rose again. The incident was resolved at 2025-05-29 16:24 UTC, with a recorded duration of 70 days 23 h.
Major incident

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