Deployment error caused a small number of recordings to be discarded.

Incident Report for Hotjar

Postmortem

What happened?
At 2:35 PM UTC on August 3rd, we identified an issue with one of our servers failing to process Recordings. This issue lasted less than 12 minutes, and it impacted 4% of Recordings. This could've caused a small number of Recordings to be discarded.

Why did this issue occur?
The issue happened due to a temporary authentication issue with our cloud provider.

What will we do to prevent this from happening in the future?
In the future, we will hold an internal postmortem.

Posted Aug 03, 2021 - 15:21 UTC

Resolved

After a deployment issue, one of our ingestion servers was briefly miss-configured. The issue was fixed quickly, but this caused a small number of ongoing recordings to be discarded. We apologize for the trouble!
Posted Aug 03, 2021 - 14:18 UTC