# Firebolt: starting & stopping engines takes long time.

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2022-06-08 08:18 UTC · Resolved: 2022-06-08 11:08 UTC · Duration: 2.8 h
- Updates: 5 · Affected components: Engines, Firebolt Components - Engines
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/zwpjgnqkr6tx](https://stspg.io/zwpjgnqkr6tx)
- [Company: Firebolt](https://rewindex.com/company/firebolt.md)

## Summary

Firebolt reported a major degradation affecting engine starts and stops from 2022-06-08 08:18 UTC to 2022-06-08 11:08 UTC, lasting 2 h 50 min. Starting or stopping engines could be slow or fail; a production fix restored those operations at 09:37 UTC, and Firebolt confirmed normal service at resolution. _(machine-written, sol)_
## Timeline of updates

- **identified** 2022-06-08 08:18 UTC: The issue is back, and Starting/Stopping engines may not work properly. We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- **identified** 2022-06-08 08:36 UTC: We are deploying a fix, and the issue should be resolved soon.
- **identified** 2022-06-08 09:11 UTC: We are running some tests on staging to make sure the fix resolved the issue.
- **monitoring** 2022-06-08 09:37 UTC: The fix deployed to production, and engines can be started and stopped again.
- **resolved** 2022-06-08 11:08 UTC: The issue resolved and the system is back to normal state.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2022-06-08 08:18 UTC: [Major incident: starting & stopping engines takes long time.](https://rewindex.com/change/ibf109797263d61.md)


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