Help Scout: Elevated Connection Errors
Timeline of updates
- resolved
What we know so far is that from 4:30am - 5:50am EST, some pages in Help Scout were generating an "Operation Timed Out" error. We had on call engineers at the time, but no one on our support team was available at that hour, so our communication was not as good as it should have been. We're going to mark the issue resolved for now and start work on a postmortem that will explain everything in greater detail.
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Status incident (vendor impact label: none) posted by Help Scout, started 2015-01-06 12:19 UTC, resolved after 41 min, 1 update(s).
- Title
- Elevated Connection Errors
- Vendor
- Help Scout
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/help-scout/incidents/3l27nymq0f27
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