Incident Library

Organisation

Instapaper

Instapaper · instapaper

1 case · 2017

Root cause Capacity exhaustion
Component DatabaseDatabase backups and snapshotsDatabase replication
Contributing factor Untested backupUnknown limitLimited debug accessMonitoring blind spotNo runbook
Symptom Service outageWrites rejected

Cases

  1. IL-0334 Instapaper's RDS MySQL bookmarks table hit the 2TB ext3 file size limit, inserts failed and the service went downInstapaper · 2017

    Root cause Capacity exhaustion