SUMMARY
During this incident, customers reported receiving an “Access Denied” message when attempting to integrate Gmail addresses or Social Accounts. That meant that during the incident customers could not integrate their GMail accounts, Facebook Pages, Twitter Handles with Zendesk. All existing integrations were working normally.
Timeline
6:26 UTC | 13:26 PT
We are investigating reports of Support customers receiving an error message when attempting to integrate a Gmail address or social page such as Facebook or Twitter. More info to follow.
21:26 UTC | 14:26 PT
Our engineers have rolled out a fix for the issue causing errors when adding social integrations. We can confirm the issue is now resolved. You may need to hard refresh your browser for the fix to take effect.
POST-MORTEM
A support.zendesk.com configuration change caused the Channels Framework to point to a wrong environment variable. This caused the Channels Frame to return an access denied error to the customer.
Resolution
Once the issue was identified, a code fix was implemented to resolve the issue.
Remediation Items
- Deploy Code fix
FOR MORE INFORMATION
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