Störungsverlauf von Pinpoint

1. 1. September 2026 um 08:20 UTCinvestigating

   Wir untersuchen derzeit ein Problem, das E-Mails betrifft, die in einem Status "Senden" stecken bleiben. Unser Ingenieurteam ist sich des Problems bewusst und untersucht aktiv. Wir werden weitere Updates bereitstellen, wenn wir mehr erfahren und auf eine Lösung hinarbeiten.

2. 1. September 2026 um 09:40 UTCidentified

   Wir haben das Problem identifiziert - unser Engineering-Team arbeitet derzeit an einem Fix und wird ein weiteres Update bereitstellen, sobald dieser behoben ist.

3. 1. September 2026 um 10:30 UTCmonitoring

   Ein Fix wurde implementiert und wir überwachen die Ergebnisse.

4. 1. September 2026 um 15:01 UTCresolved

   Dieser Vorfall wurde behoben.

5. 2. September 2026 um 11:07 UTCpostmortem

   ## **E-Mail-Zustellungsstörung - 29. August bis 1. September 2026** **Was ist passiert ** Zwischen Samstag, dem 29. August und dem Nachmittag des Montags, dem 31. August, und erneut von 23:30 BST am Montag, dem 31. August bis 11:09 BST am Dienstag, dem 1. September, wurden die von Pinpoint gesendeten E-Mails nicht zugestellt. Dies betraf die Kommunikation der Kandidaten, Benachrichtigungen und andere ausgehende E-Mails auf der Plattform. **Ursache** Beide Störungen wurden durch unseren E-Mail-Lieferanbieter Postmark verursacht. Eine Kontobeschränkung wurde auf ihrer Seite angewendet und nach ihrer Lösung wurde eine erforderliche manuelle Überprüfung durch ihr Team nicht abgeschlossen. Dies ließ die Einschränkung bestehen und veranlasste ihre Systeme, unsere E-Mails als gesendet zu akzeptieren, ohne sie zuzustellen. Es wurden keine Fehler an uns zurückgegeben, weshalb die zweite Störung nicht erkannt wurde, bis die Kunden sie gemeldet haben. Postmark hat bestätigt, dass der Fehler bei ihnen liegt, sich entschuldigt und Änderungen an ihrem Überprüfungsprozess und unseren Kontoeinstellungen vorgenommen, um eine Wiederholung zu verhindern. Keine Änderungen an Pinpoint trugen zu dem Vorfall bei. **Resolution** Am Dienstagmorgen stellte unser Ingenieurteam fest, dass das Problem vorgelagert war, und stellte die Lieferung wieder her, indem es alle E-Mails über einen neuen Sendekanal mit Postmark leitete. Die Lieferung wurde bis 11:09 BST bestätigt. Alle während der Störung betroffenen E-Mails wurden seitdem zugestellt. Eine kleine anzahl von empfängern hat möglicherweise duplikate einiger e-mails als folge der wiederherstellung erhalten; wir entschuldigen uns für jegliche verwirrung, die dadurch verursacht wurde. **Was wir tun ** * Wir haben die Möglichkeit hinzugefügt, die E-Mail-Versandkanäle sofort über die Konfiguration zu wechseln, so dass ein ähnliches Problem auf der Anbieterseite in Minuten anstatt in Stunden behoben werden kann. * Wir haben die Benachrichtigungen, die wir von unserem Provider erhalten, erweitert, damit Kontoprobleme für eine größere Gruppe unseres Teams sichtbar sind, auch außerhalb von Stunden. * Wir fügen eine Überwachung des Liefervolumens hinzu, so dass ein Rückgang der zugestellten E-Mails von uns erkannt wird, unabhängig davon, ob unser Anbieter einen Fehler meldet. * Wir haben den Umgang mit diesem Vorfall mit Postmark formell angesprochen und überprüfen unsere E-Mail-Zustellungsvereinbarungen im weiteren Sinne. Es tut uns leid für die Störung, die Sie und Ihre Kandidaten verursacht haben. Wenn Sie Fragen haben oder bestimmte E-Mails identifiziert haben, von denen Sie glauben, dass sie nicht zugestellt wurden, wenden Sie sich bitte an Ihren Customer Success Manager oder [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).

Automatisch aus der offiziellen Störungsmeldung übersetzt.

1. 3. August 2026 um 14:33 UTCmonitoring

   Unser Supportanbieter Fin (ehemals Intercom) erlebt derzeit einen Serviceausfall. Infolgedessen sind wir vorübergehend nicht in der Lage, auf Support-Nachrichten zu antworten. Wir beobachten die Situation aufmerksam über die Statusseite von Fin: https://www.finstatus.com/us-hosting, und wir werden die Beantwortung Ihrer Fragen fortsetzen, sobald der Dienst wiederhergestellt ist. Vielen Dank für Ihre Geduld und Ihr Verständnis.

2. 3. August 2026 um 16:42 UTCresolved

   Support Update – gelöst Fin (ehemals Intercom) hat einen Fix bereitgestellt, und das Problem scheint jetzt gelöst zu sein. Unser Team hat wieder Zugriff auf den Support-Posteingang und reagiert auf Ihre Anfragen. Wir werden die Situation weiterhin genau beobachten, falls sich etwas ändert. Vielen Dank für Ihre Geduld, während dieses Problem gelöst wurde.

Automatisch aus der offiziellen Störungsmeldung übersetzt.

1. 5. Juni 2026 um 12:33 UTCmonitoring

   We're currently experiencing an issue with our LinkedIn integration that may affect customers using RSC (Recruiter System Connect) features. You may notice delays in data syncing to Pinpoint, including in-mail messages and candidate exports. This will only impact customers using LinkedIn RSC features only. Core Pinpoint functionality is unaffected. We've identified the root cause and have a fix ready to deploy. We expect to roll this out this evening (UK time).

2. 6. Juni 2026 um 00:30 UTCresolved

   This incident has been resolved.

1. 13. Mai 2026 um 06:29 UTCinvestigating

   We are currently experiencing a service disruption caused by an issue with our primary database. While users are still able to log in and view data in Pinpoint, some actions that involve saving or updating information are temporarily unavailable. Our team has identified the root cause and is actively working to restore full functionality. We will provide further updates as the situation progresses.

2. 13. Mai 2026 um 06:54 UTCmonitoring

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

3. 13. Mai 2026 um 06:58 UTCmonitoring

   We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

4. 13. Mai 2026 um 07:04 UTCresolved

   This incident has been resolved.

5. 13. Mai 2026 um 14:16 UTCpostmortem

   **Duration:** Approximately 4 hours of intermittent disruption \(03:00 – 06:51 UTC\), with two distinct impact windows. ## What Happened Pinpoint experienced an unexpected service disruption in the early hours of 13 May. The incident had two impact windows: an initial period of unavailability between approximately 03:00 and 04:00 UTC, and a follow-on period between approximately 05:39 and 06:51 UTC during which users attempting to modify certain types of records \(predominantly scorecard submissions\) encountered errors. No data was lost or corrupted, and no background jobs were delayed. ## Timeline \(UTC\) * 03:00 Initial impact begins; application unavailable. * 04:00 Initial impact resolves; engineering team investigating. * 05:39 Second impact window begins; errors on a subset of record updates. * 06:29 Status page warning posted. * 06:51 Second impact window resolves. * 07:04 Incident marked as resolved. ## Why It Happened The disruption was caused by an unexpected interaction between a routine internal database operation and an active background process. This combination of events is an outlier we had not previously encountered or anticipated. The root cause has been fully investigated and is understood. ## What We're Doing About It * **Additional Monitoring** We have put additional monitoring in place to detect this specific class of interaction much earlier, before it can cause customer impact. * **Increased Database Capacity** We have provisioned additional database capacity to further reduce the likelihood of recurrence. _We sincerely apologise for the disruption and appreciate your patience._

1. 19. März 2026 um 12:01 UTCinvestigating

   We’re aware of a current issue causing 503 errors and are investigating urgently.

2. 19. März 2026 um 12:21 UTCresolved

   This has been resolved. A full post mortem will follow soon.

3. 19. März 2026 um 13:37 UTCpostmortem

   **Date:** 19 March 2026 **Duration:** Approximately 35 minutes \(11:46 to 12:21 UTC\). ### What Happened Pinpoint experienced a service outage beginning at approximately 11:46 UTC on 19 March. Users were unable to access the platform and received 503 errors. Full service was restored by approximately 12:21 UTC. No data was lost or corrupted. ### Timeline \(UTC\) * **11:46** - Automated monitoring alerts triggered for service unavailability. * **11:47** - Engineering team began investigating. * **12:01** - Status page updated to reflect the incident. * **12:10** - Root cause identified as a database firewall misconfiguration introduced during an infrastructure change. * **12:20** - Fix applied; service restored. * **12:21** - Incident marked as resolved. ### Why It Happened During an infrastructure configuration change, a database firewall rule was inadvertently applied with an overly restrictive scope. This prevented our application servers from connecting to the primary database, causing all requests to fail. ### What We're Doing About It * **Immediate fix:** The firewall configuration has been corrected and verified. * **Hardening:** We are making production database firewall rules explicitly immutable and tightening API token permissions to prevent unexpected firewall modifications. We sincerely apologise for the disruption and appreciate your patience.

1. 18. März 2026 um 08:22 UTCidentified

   We are aware of an issue affecting the resume/CV preview within the platform. Resumes may appear blank or display a browser blocking message when viewed inline. **Downloading resumes is unaffected** — you can continue to access candidate resumes using the download button. Our team has identified the cause and a fix is being deployed soon. We expect normal service to be restored shortly. We apologise for the inconvenience and will update this page once the fix is live.

2. 18. März 2026 um 09:16 UTCmonitoring

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

3. 18. März 2026 um 10:02 UTCresolved

   > What happened Users were unable to preview CVs and cover letters within the platform. The preview area appeared blank or showed a "blocked by browser" message. Downloading resumes continued to work normally throughout. > What caused it A security update was deployed overnight to protect admins from potentially harmful files. While the protection worked as intended, it had an unintended side effect - it also prevented the resume preview from loading correctly in all browsers. > What we did Identified the cause within minutes of being alerted Deployed a fix to restore normal resume previewing > What's next We have applied an alternative security protection using a different approach that doesn't affect the preview.

1. 3. März 2026 um 10:47 UTCresolved

   Component: Pinpoint → Partial Outage Investigating - 05:00 UTC: > We are aware that some users may be unable to perform actions that involve saving or updating data. Our engineering team is actively investigating. Identified - 06:45 UTC: > The auto-scaling configured on our primary database infrastructure failed to provision additional storage in response to increased load. As a result, the database entered read-only mode, preventing write operations. We are provisioning additional storage to restore full functionality. Monitoring - 06:57 UTC: > Additional storage has been provisioned and write operations have been restored. Our team is monitoring to confirm full stability across all services. Resolved - 07:01 UTC: > The issue has been fully resolved and all services are operating normally. We apologise for the disruption and are reviewing our auto-scaling configuration to prevent recurrence.

1. 12. Februar 2026 um 14:05 UTCinvestigating

   We are currently experiencing a full service outage. All requests are returning 503 errors. Our engineering team is actively investigating and working to restore service as quickly as possible.

2. 12. Februar 2026 um 14:09 UTCinvestigating

   We are currently experiencing a major service disruption. Most requests are returning 503 errors, though limited service is available through a single server. Our engineering team is actively investigating and working to restore full capacity.

3. 12. Februar 2026 um 14:18 UTCidentified

   We are continuing to recover from a service disruption that caused 503 errors. Additional servers have been brought back online and service is improving. Our engineering team is working to restore full capacity.

4. 12. Februar 2026 um 14:26 UTCmonitoring

   Service has been mostly restored following an earlier outage. Some users may experience minor intermittent slowness. Our team continues to monitor as we return to full normal operation.

5. 12. Februar 2026 um 14:46 UTCmonitoring

   Service has stabilised following the earlier outage. Our servers are back online and performing as expected. Our team will continue to monitor the situation.

6. 12. Februar 2026 um 15:02 UTCresolved

   The earlier service outage has been resolved. Our servers are back online and operating normally. We apologise for the disruption and are taking steps to prevent this from recurring.

7. 13. Februar 2026 um 10:53 UTCpostmortem

   **Date:** 12 February 2026 **Duration:** Approximately 30 minutes \(14:00 - 14:35 UTC\), with a brief secondary disruption during recovery. ### What Happened Pinpoint experienced a service outage beginning at approximately 14:00 UTC on 12 February. Most users were unable to access the platform and received 504 timeout errors, though partial capacity meant some requests were still being served. Full service was restored by approximately 14:35 UTC. Some outbound emails were delayed due to background workers also being affected. All queued emails were delivered by approximately 16:15 UTC. No data was lost or corrupted. ### Timeline \(UTC\) * **14:00** - Automated monitoring alerts triggered for service unavailability. * **14:02** - Engineering team began investigating. * **14:08** - Root cause identified as a network configuration conflict introduced by a third-party infrastructure provider. * **14:20** - Initial fix applied; service stabilising. * **14:22** - Third-party provider's automation reinstated the conflicting configuration, causing a brief secondary disruption. * **14:30** - Fix reapplied with additional safeguards to prevent recurrence. * **14:35** - Full service restored. * **16:15** - All delayed outbound emails delivered. ### Why It Happened A third-party infrastructure provider applied an automated network configuration change to our servers. The change was overly broad and conflicted with our own networking configuration, causing the majority of inbound traffic to be dropped. During initial recovery, the provider's automation re-applied the conflicting change before we implemented stronger protections. ### What We're Doing About It * **Immediate Safeguards:** Protections are in place to prevent this specific change from affecting our infrastructure again. * **Removing the Dependency:** We are accelerating work to bring the affected networking functionality fully in-house, removing the third-party dependency entirely. We sincerely apologise for the disruption and appreciate your patience.

1. 28. November 2025 um 12:03 UTCinvestigating

   We’re currently investigating reports of missing records (including interviews, comments, messages and scorecards) as a result of the earlier reported infrastructure incident. The platform is operating normally, and no further service disruption is expected. Our team is actively working to identify and restore the affected data. We’ll provide updates as soon as we have more information. Thank you for your patience.

2. 30. November 2025 um 19:30 UTCresolved

   We have identified the missing records within the platform and restored the affected data. If you have any questions or require assistance please reach out to our support team via the in-app chat function

1. 28. November 2025 um 10:33 UTCidentified

   We are currently experiencing platform issues affecting candidate index pages as well as some actions across the platform including editing or deleting certain types of records (e.g cancelling and re-scheduling candidate interviews). This follows a planned infrastructure update completed last night. We’ve identified some unexpected issues related to the change and are implementing adjustments to ensure full stability. This work involves a few coordinated steps and is expected to take around 30 minutes. We’re treating this with the highest priority and will continue to provide updates. Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the disruption.

2. 28. November 2025 um 11:31 UTCresolved

   This incident has been resolved. > What happened Following a planned infrastructure update last night, some customers experienced errors when performing certain actions on the platform, particularly around candidate pages and interview scheduling. We identified the root cause and restored full service by reverting to our previous database infrastructure. > Current status The platform is now fully operational. All features are working normally. > Data impact Due to an issue between both database providers when we restored service, there's a short window (between 10:16 and 10:57 UTC this morning) where some changes made on the platform may not yet be reflected. No data has been lost, we have complete records of everything that happened during this window and are working to restore any affected changes to the live system. The status of data reconciliation is being tracked here: https://status.pinpoint.support/incidents/9v65gddb3y1n > A note on our recovery standards We maintain internal Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) as part of our commitment to platform reliability. The 41-minute data gap from this incident falls outside the standards we set for ourselves, and we take that seriously. While no data was lost, we're treating this as a priority learning for our infrastructure processes going forward, and feedback for our vendors and their practices. A full post-mortem will follow on Monday.

1. 30. Juli 2025 um 11:22 UTCmonitoring

   Earlier today, our platform experienced a temporary disruption due to a sudden and highly unusual surge in external traffic, significantly beyond anything we’ve seen before. This caused intermittent 503 errors and degraded performance for approximately 15 minutes. We acted quickly to contain the issue and restore full service, including scaling our infrastructure and working closely with our edge network provider to bolster caching and traffic protection systems. Service is now fully operational and stable. We’re continuing to implement further safeguards to ensure that similar patterns of abnormal traffic cannot affect platform availability in the future. While today’s disruption was limited in scope and duration, we recognise the importance of uninterrupted access to Pinpoint - and are treating this with the seriousness it deserves. We’ll continue monitoring closely and share any further updates here as needed.

2. 30. Juli 2025 um 14:36 UTCresolved

   This incident has been resolved.

1. 22. Juli 2025 um 06:38 UTCinvestigating

   We experienced an unexpected outage with our primary database between 01:50 22nd July & 03:40 22nd July. Service has now been restored using a backup. However, the backup we restored from was approximately 24 hours old, which means any data written to the system between 01:00 BST 21st July and 01:00 22nd July is currently missing. We are in the process of restoring our database to a more recent back-up snapshot (from 01:00 BST 22nd July) so that the aforementioned missing data from yesterday is restored. Once this second restore has finished, any records created since 01:00 BST 22nd July will be missing from the system. We are actively working to ensure that this small amount of missing data from today is then also restored. All missing data is recoverable, it currently just exists in separate database back-ups. Once our second restore finishes the final part of our restoration involves reconciling the two back-ups. This process is complex and may take some time to complete. We will continue to provide further updates as progress continues. Service Availability: Fully restored. Data: Any records created or updated during the affected period (last 24 hours) are not yet visible. Next Steps: We are working to recover and restore this missing data. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this has caused and appreciate your patience while we work to fully resolve the issue.

2. 22. Juli 2025 um 08:07 UTCinvestigating

   Database Outage Update: Recovery in Progress, Data Backfill Required We are still in the process of restoring our database to a more recent back-up snapshot (from 01:00 BST 22nd July) so that the aforementioned missing data from yesterday is fully restored. Once this second restore has finished, any records created since 01:00 BST 22nd July will still be missing from the system. We will then proceed with restoring this small amount of missing data from today. All missing data is recoverable, it currently just exists in separate database back-ups. Once our second restore finishes the final part of our restoration involves reconciling the two back-ups. Service Availability: Fully restored. Data: Any records created or updated during the affected period (last 24 hours) are not yet visible. Next Steps: We are working to recover and restore this missing data. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this has caused and appreciate your patience while we work to fully resolve the issue.

3. 22. Juli 2025 um 08:57 UTCinvestigating

   Database Outage Update: Recovery in Progress, Data Backfill Required We have now restored our database to a more recent back-up snapshot (from this morning at 01:00 BST, 22nd July). Any and all records that were in any way created or modified yesterday (from 01:00 BST, 21st July onwards) are now visible once again in the system. We are now working to restore all data that was created or modified from 01:00 BST 22nd July (early hours of this morning) up until the point we restored our database just moments ago. All missing data is recoverable, it currently just exists in separate database back-ups, and we are working as fast as we can to reconcile the two back-ups. Service Availability: Fully restored. Data: Any records created or updated during the affected period (last 24 hours) are now visible. Next Steps: We are working to recover and restore data that was created or modified since 01:00 BST, July 22nd this morning. Important Note on Performance: - During this recovery process, system performance will be slower than usual. This is because we are temporarily running all operations through a single database while we work to fully restore normal infrastructure. - We are also experiencing significant slowdowns with the processing of all custom reports We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this has caused and appreciate your patience while we work to fully resolve the issue.

4. 22. Juli 2025 um 10:12 UTCinvestigating

   Database Outage Update: Recovery in Progress, Data Backfill Required We are now working to restore all data that was created or modified from 01:00 BST 22nd July (early hours of this morning) up until the point we restored our database at 08:57 BST today. All missing data is recoverable, it currently just exists in separate database back-ups, and we are working as fast as we can to reconcile the two back-ups. Service Availability: Fully restored. Data: Any records created or updated during the affected period (last 24 hours) are now visible. Next Steps: We are working to recover and restore data that was created or modified since 01:00 BST, July 22nd this morning. Important Note on Performance: - We have returned to normal database infrastructure, meaning the previously reported performance slowdowns should begin to improve load is shared across multiple databases. - We are also experiencing significant slowdowns with the processing of all custom reports We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this has caused and appreciate your patience while we work to fully resolve the issue.

5. 22. Juli 2025 um 12:29 UTCinvestigating

   Database Outage Update: Recovery in Progress, Data Backfill Required We are still working on restoring all data that was created or modified from 01:00 BST 22nd July (early hours of this morning) up until the point we restored our database at 08:57 BST today. All missing data is recoverable, it currently just exists in separate database back-ups, and we are working as fast as we can to reconcile the two back-ups. Service Availability: Fully restored. Data: Any records created or updated during the affected period (last 24 hours) are now visible. Next Steps: We are working to recover and restore data that was created or modified since 01:00 BST, July 22nd this morning. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this has caused and appreciate your patience while we work to fully resolve the issue.

6. 23. Juli 2025 um 06:20 UTCinvestigating

   Database Outage Update: Recovery in Progress, Data Backfill Required Most of the data that was created or modified between 01:00 BST 22nd July and 09:00 BST 22nd July has been restored and is now visible in the platform. This includes all records with the exception of new job applications, which we are currently processing. We expect that data to be restored within the next hour. Service Availability: Fully restored. Data: Any records created or updated during the affected period (between 01:00 BST 22nd July and 09:00 BST 22nd July) with the exception of job application data is now visible in the system. Next Steps: We are now restoring remaining job application data that was created or modified between 01:00 BST, July 22nd and 09:00 BST. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this has caused and appreciate your patience while we work to fully resolve the issue.

7. 23. Juli 2025 um 07:07 UTCresolved

   Database Outage Update: Recovery in Progress, Data Backfill Required All remaining data that was created or modified between 01:00 BST 22nd July and 09:00 BST 22nd July has been restored and is now visible in the platform. Service Availability: Fully restored. Data: Any records created or updated during the affected period (between 01:00 BST 22nd July and 09:00 BST 22nd July) is now visible in the system. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this has caused and appreciate your patience while we work to fully resolve the issue.

1. 22. Juli 2025 um 01:33 UTCinvestigating

   We are investigating an outage with our primary database that is affecting the whole platform.

2. 22. Juli 2025 um 02:40 UTCmonitoring

   A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the the application. You may experience degraded performance

3. 23. Juli 2025 um 08:29 UTCresolved

   The outage has been resolved, and all services are operational. A full post-mortem will follow.

4. 23. Juli 2025 um 08:29 UTCpostmortem

   **Date:** 22 July 2025 **Duration:** 8 hours 34 minutes \(01:07 – 09:41 BST\) ### **What Happened** Pinpoint experienced a significant service disruption affecting our primary database, admin/API services, and careers site from 1:07 AM to 9:41 AM BST on 22 July. During this period, customers experienced complete service unavailability for approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes, followed by functionality with temporarily outdated data until full restoration was completed. ### **Timeline \(BST\)** * **01:07** – Service disruption began; database connectivity issues detected * **01:09** – Emergency response initiated; services marked as unavailable * **01:45** – Initial database restoration commenced * **03:45** – Services restored with backup data from the previous day * **09:21** – Second restoration initiated with more recent backup * **09:41** – Full service restoration completed with current data * **10:00\+** – Performance optimisation measures implemented * **23:50\+** – Restoration of some delayed data from 3:00-9:41 AM ### **Why It Happened** The incident occurred during a trial of a new database vendor's migration service. While testing their system, operations intended for a test environment were unexpectedly redirected to our production database, resulting in the unintended removal of data. The database vendor's system includes advanced features designed to help companies migrate data safely. However, the behaviour of these features during our testing phase was not clearly indicated in their interface. This led to test operations affecting our live production data instead of remaining isolated in the test environment, where they belonged. ### **What We're Doing About It** * **Immediate Recovery Completed:** All services have been fully restored. We are working to restore data created during the early morning hours of Tuesday. * **Enhanced Monitoring:** We are implementing additional safeguards to detect and prevent unintended database operations, including alerts for any bulk data modifications. * **Vendor Collaboration:** We are working closely with the database vendor to improve their user interface and documentation, ensuring that system behaviour is communicated during all operational phases. We apologise for this disruption to your service. We understand the critical nature of your recruitment processes and the impact this may have had on scheduled interviews and daily operations.

1. 26. Juni 2025 um 15:16 UTCinvestigating

   We're currently investigating an issue affecting the Candidate Search functionality. Users are experiencing errors with no results returned when attempting to search for candidates. This only affects the All Candidates page. Our engineering team is actively working to identify the root cause and restore full service as quickly as possible. We’ll provide an update as soon as more information is available. We apologise for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

2. 26. Juni 2025 um 15:21 UTCidentified

   We've identified the root cause of the Candidate Search issue and have a fix prepared. The patch will be deployed within the next 60 minutes. We'll continue to monitor progress closely and provide an update once the fix is fully in place and search functionality is confirmed to be stable. Thank you for your continued patience.

3. 26. Juni 2025 um 16:40 UTCmonitoring

   We’ve deployed a fix for the candidate search issue and candidate search functionality has been restored. Our team is continuing to monitor the system closely.

4. 26. Juni 2025 um 18:54 UTCresolved

   This incident has been resolved.

1. 1. Mai 2025 um 14:31 UTCinvestigating

   We are currently investigating the issue.

2. 1. Mai 2025 um 14:45 UTCinvestigating

   We have identified an issue with our primary database cluster and are working with our infrastructure provider to determine the root cause.

3. 1. Mai 2025 um 15:04 UTCidentified

   The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented

4. 1. Mai 2025 um 15:21 UTCmonitoring

   A fix has been rolled out. All services are currently operational and we are continuing to monitor.

5. 1. Mai 2025 um 16:19 UTCresolved

   This has been resolved. A full post mortem will follow soon.

6. 2. Mai 2025 um 15:21 UTCpostmortem

   **Date:** 1 May 2025 **Duration:** 50 minutes \(15:11 – 16:01\) ### **What Happened** Pinpoint experienced a complete admin/API service outage and a partial careers site outage, lasting from 3:11 PM to 4:01 PM BST on 1 May. During this 50-minute window, users could not access the platform and were presented with error messages when attempting to log in or use any part of the service. ### **Timeline \(BST\)** **15:11** – Monitoring alerts triggered for a service interruption. **15:13** – Root cause identified as database connection failures. **15:20** – Contacted managed database provider; issue confirmed as infrastructure-related. **15:45** – Provider identified a disk controller failure and began working on remediation; we started a cluster migration ourselves in case of further provider issues. **15:50** – We escalated the issue with the provider due to a lack of failover activation. **16:00** – Provider migrated the database to new hardware; connectivity restored. **16:01** – Full service restoration confirmed across all components. ### **Why It Happened** The root cause was a hardware failure on the part of our managed database provider. Specifically, a critical disk controller in their storage infrastructure failed, resulting in incorrect disk space reporting at the database level. This led our primary database instance to believe it had run out of storage space, and it began rejecting all connections, including those from our application servers. Although our agreement with the provider includes premium-grade redundancy and automated failover mechanisms, these safeguards failed to activate due to an undetected fault in their failover detection logic. As a result, traffic was not redirected to the standby replica, and manual intervention from their engineering team was required to restore normal operations. Unfortunately, this intervention took longer than acceptable, contributing to the total duration of the outage. ### **What We’re Doing About It** * **Hardware Migration Completed:** Our provider has successfully migrated our primary database to a new, healthy hardware environment. Service has been fully restored and is operating normally. * **Evaluating New Providers:** We chose our current provider for their strong reputation and reliability, but in light of this incident, we’re reassessing our options to ensure our infrastructure meets the highest standards of resilience and support. * **Working with Current Provider:** We’re working with our current provider’s engineering and account teams to understand why their failover system did not function as promised and to ensure such a failure does not recur prior to us migrating to an alternative provider. We sincerely apologise for the disruption and appreciate your patience as we work to strengthen our platform's stability.

1. 18. März 2025 um 10:05 UTCinvestigating

   During routine maintenance to our search infrastructure, an update to the indexed data did not apply correctly, resulting in the inability to search for job applications in the admin application.

2. 18. März 2025 um 10:05 UTCidentified

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

3. 18. März 2025 um 10:58 UTCmonitoring

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

4. 18. März 2025 um 12:18 UTCresolved

   This incident has been resolved.

1. 16. Februar 2025 um 16:40 UTCidentified

   During routine maintenance to our search infrastructure, an update to the indexed data did not apply correctly, resulting in the inability to search for some resources in the admin application, such as candidates.

2. 17. Februar 2025 um 10:41 UTCidentified

   We have identified the cause of the issue and are steadily rolling out the fix.

3. 18. Februar 2025 um 11:02 UTCidentified

   We have restored functionality to 95% of searchable resources and continue to roll out the fix for the remainder.

4. 18. Februar 2025 um 16:29 UTCresolved

   We have finished rolling out the fix for our search backend, and all search components are 100% functional again.

5. 27. Februar 2025 um 15:32 UTCpostmortem

   We apologise for last week’s disruption to our typically swift and flexible search functionality. This was caused by routine maintenance of our search infrastructure over the weekend of February 15th and 16th, which encountered unexpected issues during data migration. The resolution of the issue was further complicated by the larger-than-anticipated size of some datasets and the difficulty of certain technical processes in keeping up. On Tuesday, February 18th, we also deployed several bug fixes that sped up our data processing and ensured that search failures did not make the UI unusable in some circumstances. Rest assured, the team has thoroughly reviewed the incident, and changes are already in the pipeline to prevent similar occurrences.

1. 16. September 2024 um 12:59 UTCinvestigating

   We're experiencing an intermittent delay in requests being completed and are currently looking into the issue.

2. 16. September 2024 um 13:27 UTCinvestigating

   The platform is currently stable, however there is currently a delay in background task processing whilst we continue to investigate the root cause.

3. 16. September 2024 um 14:46 UTCmonitoring

   The platform is stable, and background task processing has returned to normal levels. We are continuing to monitor our systems.

4. 16. September 2024 um 16:14 UTCresolved

   This incident has been resolved.

1. 9. August 2023 um 11:40 UTCidentified

   We are currently experiencing an intermittent network issue due through our hosting provider, Digital Ocean. We are currently tracking the issue and will provide further updates as more become available. The issue can be tracked here: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/q4b09b022nmh

2. 9. August 2023 um 12:12 UTCidentified

   There is currently an ongoing networking issue affecting all of our hosting providers services. From our investigation we can see that this is preventing some requests from being made to and from the Pinpoint servers.

3. 9. August 2023 um 12:15 UTCmonitoring

   Our own monitoring systems inform us that we are no longer experiencing any network issues. We are continuing to monitor the situation closely and will provide an update in due course.

4. 9. August 2023 um 12:26 UTCidentified

   We have just seen a reoccurrence of the issue.

5. 9. August 2023 um 15:07 UTCmonitoring

   Our hosting provider has rolled out a fix and is monitoring to ensure stability.

6. 9. August 2023 um 16:03 UTCresolved

   Our hosting provider has confirmed full resolution of the issue impacting network connectivity.

1. 6. November 2022 um 22:16 UTCresolved

   Web servers are currently not configured to serve requests.

2. 6. November 2022 um 22:17 UTCpostmortem

   As part of routine maintenance we were installing security updates on our web servers. The process for this involved systematically removing them from serving requests, installing the updates and then adding them back into the load balancer so that they could continue to process requests. A configuration issue lead to updated servers not being added back into the load balancer. Our development team were quick to recognise and rectify the issue. Our internal processes have changed in order to prevent this happening again in the future.