Yesterday, August 23 2011, we suffered an outage that began at 6:20 PM PDT and lasted for approximately 24 minutes. We know that you depend on Heroku to be up, so we wanted to explain the circumstances of this outage.
The outage was the result of a failed database maintenance window. We recently…
Resolved
The platform continues to operate normally and we are going to discontinue tracking of this incident. We will be conducting a post-mortem review tomorrow and will publish the results as soon as they are available.
Update
Applications continue to operate normally. Our engineers are still monitoring the system very closely to ensure that things remain stable. Barring any additional difficulties, we expect to close this incident in 15 minutes.
Update
Services have been restored and the platform is returning to normal. We are continuing to monitor the situation as we return to 100%.
Update
We are aware of widespread issues with the platform. We are rolling back the operations performed during our maintenance window and are working to bring platform services back online as soon as possible.
Issue
We're investigating issues related to HTTP traffic on the platform.