Incident Library

Organisation

Gadget

Gadget · gadget

1 case · 2024

Root cause Capacity exhaustion
Component DatabaseDatabase proxy and connection poolerLinux kernel
Contributing factor Unverified assumptionAutomation amplificationExcessive blast radiusUnrepresentative staging
Symptom High latencyService outage

Cases

  1. IL-0312 Gadget's main Postgres did not start again after a restart to raise max_connections, and the platform went downGadget · 2024

    Root cause Capacity exhaustion