# Honeycomb: Degraded Ingest due to database connectivity issues

> Honeycomb status incident “Degraded Ingest due to database connectivity issues” on 2026-03-10: impact minor (vendor’s label), 24 min, 3 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/honeycomb/incidents/c3r87p5py703
Last updated: 2026-03-10T14:14:25Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-03-10 13:50 UTC · Resolved: 2026-03-10 14:14 UTC · Duration: 24 min
- Updates: 3 · Affected components: api.honeycomb.io - US1 Event Ingest
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/6b5yv6dj331w](https://stspg.io/6b5yv6dj331w)
- [Company: Honeycomb](https://rewindex.com/company/honeycomb.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2026-03-10 13:50 UTC: We are currently seeing elevated errors in connecting to some of our databases, which results in low amounts of Ingest traffic being rejected. We are looking into correcting the situation.
- **monitoring** 2026-03-10 13:56 UTC: We have stabilized the cluster and are monitoring the state while investigating to understand what triggered the degradation. Overall, 0.04% traffic was rejected with an error due to this degradation during the 20 minute window we were impaired.
- **resolved** 2026-03-10 14:14 UTC: This incident is now resolved. We are also noting that some other parts of honeycomb (the query UI) may have seen spurious failures as well during the impacted period (13:22—13:44 UTC).

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by Honeycomb, started 2026-03-10 13:50 UTC, resolved after 24 min, 3 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/honeycomb/incidents/c3r87p5py703
- Citation: Honeycomb, “Degraded Ingest due to database connectivity issues” (2026-03-10 13:50 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/honeycomb/incidents/c3r87p5py703 (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[Honeycomb: Degraded Ingest due to database connectivity issues (2026-03-10)](https://rewindex.com/company/honeycomb/incidents/c3r87p5py703)`


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