SUMMARY
On March 21, 2022 from 01:57 UTC to 02:23 UTC, Chat and Messaging customers on POD 25 experienced a delay in ticket creation for these channels.
Timeline
03:00 UTC | 20:00 PT
Between 01:57 UTC and 02:23 UTC we detected increased latency in Chat/Messaging ticket creations on Pod 25 for some Support (Agent Workspace) customers. The issue is now resolved and latency should be dropping if it is not already back to normal. We apologize for the inconvenience this issue may have caused.
POST-MORTEM
Root Cause Analysis
The service that manages the creation of chat and message tickets could not communicate with our backend server.
Resolution
To fix this issue, the affected service was killed and restarted. Recovery was observed thereafter.
Remediation Items
Implementing a change to how our back end processes handle their connection to our chat/message ticket service. [Scheduled]
FOR MORE INFORMATION
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