A bug in our code and a gap in our error handling & alerting caused a very limited amount of browser checks — to our knowledge just one — to stop reporting results to our processing backend. Although the impact seems limited, we did a full investigation and are sharing this post…
Monday 18 May we had an outage in processing browser check results between 15:44 PM UTC and 20:38 PM UTC. This was caused by a bug in our release and deployment software. API checks were not impacted. ImpactFor around 5 hours, we did not record any results for…
On 28-04-2020 from ~02:00 AM - 02:30 AM CET Checks failed to schedule due to downstream problems. Particularly the AWS SNS in the us-west-1 region seems to have been the issue. Checks were retried but still failed. This reports the check as a failure for that region. Impact…
Update 31-10-2019Today, a customer reported that on public dashboards, the contents of any browser check script are part of the API response that supplies the dashboard with data. Admittedly, this was by design not due to a bug or hack: In our thinking, browser check scripts should not contain sensitive…