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Historical record of incidents for Seeking Alpha

Report: "Checkout pages down"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring

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

identified

Due to issues at the upstream service provider, the purchase of new subscriptions is temporary unavailable. We are actively monitoring the issue and will update as soon as the status changes.

Report: "Website down"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

We limited the outage to symbol pages only

identified

A scheduled financial data migration caused global website slowness to a halt

Report: "Website Down"

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resolved

Due to our cloud provider (AWS) connectivity issues, our website was down for 35 minutes. All operations were restored by 11:00 ET.

Report: "Site down"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring

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

investigating

We are currently investigating this issue.

Report: "Slowness and partial outage of Premium and Market Place checkout pages"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring

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

identified

The issue is related to partial downtime of our Subscription Management service (Zuora). In the meanwhile, to prevent confusion and inconsistencies we redirected all checkout pages to a temporary error page.

Report: "Marketplace Chat is offline"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

Report: "Degraded performance"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring

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

identified

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

identified

We are continuing to monitor the situation

identified

We experiencing a partial outage as a result of performance issues on our CDN provider - Fastly. The Fastly team is investigating the issue and we'll update here as soon as new information will come up. https://status.fastly.com/

Report: "Site is experiencing partial downtime"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring

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

investigating

We are currently investigating this issue.

Report: "Random connection errors"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring

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

identified

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

identified

Users experience random connection errors from various places in the world. The issue happens on our CDN (Fastly) level: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/1rbr326kjsmt Fastly team is investigating the issue. We'll update here as soon as we'll have new information.

Report: "Some users are experiencing slowness with Marketplace Chat"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

investigating

We are currently investigating this issue.

Report: "Marketplace Chat is down"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring

We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

monitoring

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

investigating

We are currently investigating this issue.

Report: "Website is partially down"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring

The database service has been restored, we are monitoring the situation. Some specific data points might be outdated or unavailable for some additional time.

identified

The failed Database service is still down. AWS is working on resolving it. In the meantime, we limited the outage to only symbol pages that are heavily dependent on that database.

identified

One of our main Amazon managed databases is down, we are working with AWS support to fix it ASAP.

Report: "Email service is not operational"

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resolved

RTA's, Newsletters, and other emails are delayed until the service is restored.

Report: "Site is experiencing partial downtime"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring

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

identified

We isolated the issue to article pages on mobile and now working on fixing it.

investigating

We are continuing to investigate this issue.

investigating

We are currently investigating this issue.

Report: "Site down"

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resolved

We found and resolved the issue.

investigating

We are continuing to investigate this issue.

investigating

We are currently investigating this issue.

Report: "Seeking Alpha emails are not being delivered"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring

The sending of email alerts and newsletters going forward has been restored.

identified

We temporarily switched transactional emails (registration, personal notifications, etc.) to an alternative provider. Newsletters and Article publishing alerts are still not being sent.

identified

We identified an issue with our email provider and actively working on resolving it.

Report: "Site down"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring

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

investigating

We are currently investigating this issue.

Report: "Server Issues"

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resolved

The server issues have been resolved and the site should now be functioning normally.

investigating

We are having sporadic server issues. We are currently investigating. In the meantime, parts of the site may not work properly.

Report: "Partial Site Outage"

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resolved

The website was partially down for about 5 minutes and then auto-recovered. We are investigating the cause to try and prevent future incidents like this. Functionality should now be fully restored.

investigating

We are currently investigating an issue with our portfolio and other personalized pages. Users may be seeing 500 errors on these pages. We will update once we have identified the issue.

Report: "Site Issues"

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resolved

All issues are now resolved.

monitoring

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

investigating

We have identified the issue and already implemented a partial fix. The site should be functioning normally except for Marketplace chat which is still down at the moment.

investigating

We are currently experiencing server issues. Many parts of the website are impacted. We are investigating and will update as soon as possible.

Report: "Website is Down"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

investigating

We are continuing to investigate this issue.

investigating

Our website is currently down. We are working to resolve the issue as fast as possible. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Report: "Site down"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

Our hosting is experiencing problems and are aware of the problem. We're awaiting further updates from them.

investigating

We are currently investigating this issue.

Report: "Market Data Issues"

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resolved

The market data issue is now resolved. Apologies for the inconvenience.

identified

Our Market Data provider is currently experiencing an outage. We don't have an ETA yet on a fix, but will monitor closely and update.

Report: "Market Data Issues"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

Problem has been solved.

identified

Our market data provider is currently experiencing an outage. This is causing price quotes to not function on our website and mobile apps. We will update when the issue is resolved.

Report: "Site Slowness"

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resolved

The site performance issues are now resolved. Apologies for any inconvenience.

identified

The site is currently experiencing slowness due to server issues. Some users may also see occasional 500 errors. We have identified the issue and a fix is in progress.

Report: "Marketplace Chat Down"

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resolved

Chat is now functioning. You may need to refresh the page to reload the chat. Apologies for the outage

identified

Marketplace Chat is now down across all services. We have identified the issue and are working to fix. Will update soon.

Report: "OTC Markets Data"

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resolved

This is now fixed. OTC data should now be updating normally.

investigating

Our data provider is experiencing issues with updating OTC markets data. This is resulting in OTC prices not loading on our desktop site and mobile apps. We are working with them to resolve the issue and will update as soon as it's resolved.

Report: "Slow performance in some parts of the site"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

An upstream provider has confirmed a database networking issue. We are in touch with them and will update further.

investigating

We're aware that some features may be performing slower than usual, due to a database issue. We're actively investigating and will update accordingly.

Report: "Site disruption"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

investigating

We see that some users may be affected by a server glitch and are working in real-time to rectify it.

Report: "Site disruption"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

investigating

We are aware of an issue and are actively working to resolve it.

Report: "Site slowness"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring

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

identified

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

Report: "CMS is partially down"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

investigating

Server connection error continues hitting the CMS servers.

Report: "Failures on various pages"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

We identified internal connection error between servers and in the process of fixing it.

Report: "AWS issues affect third party services"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

AWS have identified the issue and are actively working on a fix.

identified

There is an outage of AWS S3 services in us-east-1 region. This does not affect our services directly, but may affect some of our partners, hence some users may notice disruption in some parts of SA.

Report: "Portfolio issues"

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resolved

The bug in the code started to affect other areas of the site as well, however the fix has been uploaded and all areas of the site are fully operational.

identified

We are aware of an issue accessing the portfolio page, our developers have identified the bug and are in the process of uploading a fix.

Report: "Market data chart not appearing on homepage"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

We are aware that the market data unit in the top right of our homepage is blank. Engineers are working to rectify the issue.

Report: "Internet-wide DDOS hacking attacks"

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resolved

We have been notified by our DNS provider that the incident has been resolved.

investigating

Even though it is out of our control, we want our valued users to understand that we are aware that we have been affected by these attacks which started earlier today and continue now. We are in "good company" - other sufferers include New York Times, Heroku, Spotify, Reddit, GitHub, and PagerDuty. Our DNS and CDN partners are working to mitigate the ill effects. Anybody wishing to find out more technical details, search for DNS DDOS in Google News. We'll update this incident report when the attack is over.

Report: "Contributor statistics paused"

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resolved

Statistics up to date, we'll continue to monitor closely.

identified

We're please to say statistics are now being brought up to date. We'll update further when loading is complete - ETA few hours.

identified

Update: The disk space increase is still in progress and our Plan B failed due to low-level database / SSL renegotiation issues. This has been a crossing over of *three* nasty occurrences. We are leveraging all possible support from our partners, and we are treating this with highest urgency. Statistics are being recorded, and will be published as soon as our database is ready to accept them. Normal browsing of our website is unaffected.

identified

We are upgrading the statistics database disks, and will report back when the upgrade is complete. Counting in the background is still operational. We are also investigating why we weren't pro-actively alerted in this case.

Report: "Site issues"

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resolved

The issue has been resolved. :)

investigating

We are aware of connectivity issues and are working to resolve them. ETA for fix - within five minutes, probably less.

Report: "Site performance"

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resolved

The issue has been identified and resolved.

investigating

We are aware of issues affecting site performance, and are actively working to resolve them. We'll update on resolution.

Report: "Infrastructure Failure"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

We've identified backend infrastructure failure. Our engineers are deploying a fix.

Report: "Database Disruptions"

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resolved

A fix has been deployed.

identified

Our DB Admin found the malfunctioning code and implementing a solution.

investigating

Our monitoring systems notified us about database service disruption. Users may experience partial content on several site components.

Report: "Site performance issues"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

We have rectified the issue.

investigating

We are seeing some server instability and we are working in real-time to fix the issue.

Report: "Service interruptions"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

We continue to see intermittent service interruptions, and are working with our hosting company to resolve them.

Report: "Intermittent site issues"

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resolved

Issue resolved.

monitoring

We have identified the issue and things are settling down now. We continue to monitor.

investigating

Users may experience intermittent issues. We are investigating and will report back.

Report: "Site performance issues"

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resolved

We've finished reverting the problematic code, and full service is restored.

identified

Deploying some non-performant code has caused slow performance. We are reverting this at present and will update.

Report: "Emergency DB maintenance"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

Report: "Redis database issues"

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resolved

All services back to normal. Sorry for any disturbance.

monitoring

We believe the issue is resolved and are now monitoring.

investigating

We are having issues with our Redis databases. Some strange behaviour may occur on the site. We are on top of this and will update accordingly.

Report: "Degraded performance"

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resolved

The issue is fixed, all services are operational.

identified

We are dealing with server issues which may affect performance for some users. We'll update when the issue is resolved.

Report: "Emergency database maintenance"

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resolved

All systems have been back to full performance for a number of hours, closing incident.

identified

Due to emergency database maintenance, some users may notice disruption to services for the next hour or so. We are on it and will notify when the activity completes.