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Imgix incident: Intermittent rendering errors

Imgix reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 23, 2023, 22:34 UTC. It was resolved after 59 min.

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Oct 23, 2023, 22:34 UTC
started
Oct 23, 2023, 23:32 UTC
resolved
59 min
duration
Minor
impact

Affected components

  • Rendering Infrastructure
  1. postmortemNov 2, 2023, 18:52 UTC

    # What happened? On October 23, 2023, between 21:43 UTC and 23:14 UTC, imgix experienced a partial outage affecting images served from the Rendering API. During this time, a small percentage \(<0.45% on average\) of non-cached requests returned a server error. A fix was implemented at 23:02 UTC, which allowed the service to recover by 23:14 UTC fully. # How were customers impacted? Between 21:46 UTC and 23:14 UTC, requests to the Rendering API returned a server error, with 0.65% of all requests to our CDN returning an error at the height of the incident. Additionally, Sources returned an unknown status between 21:06 UTC to 21:09 UTC. During this period, customers reported being unable to create Sources.  # What went wrong during the incident? Our Rendering API experienced an unexpected interaction that caused a dramatic increase in server load. This caused error rates to increase as the network became overloaded slowly. The errors fluctuated between 0.07% to 0.65% until we resol

  2. resolvedOct 23, 2023, 23:32 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  3. monitoringOct 23, 2023, 23:15 UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. investigatingOct 23, 2023, 22:34 UTC

    We are investigating an issue affecting a small percentage of renders.

What APIStatus.watch saw

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How often does Imgix have incidents?

Imgix reported 3 incidents in the last 90 days, 2 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 51 min. See Imgix's uptime and incident history

Imgix incident on Oct 23, 2023: Intermittent rendering errors · APIStatus.watch