[CA region only] Unplanned interruption to services

What Happened?

At approximately 11:15 am EST on Monday, March 2, 2026, core services in Canada experienced a system-wide downtime. The incident was caused by database connection exhaustion. The team suspects this was caused by a background process responsible for resetting user statuses (transitioning Hypercare users from “Unavailable” or “Busy” statuses back to “Available” after a set expiry date and time) generated a high volume of sustained, long-lived connections. The database has a fixed limit on permissible concurrent connections and these hanging connections saturated the pool, preventing any new requests from being processed.

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Impact

All Hypercare services were inaccessible for Canadian users from approximately 11:15 am EST until 12:22 pm EST on Monday, March 2, 2026.

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Resolution and Next Steps

The Engineering team restored services by manually terminating stalled connections and increased the capacity on the database pool. The team disabled the automated status reset feature to stabilize the environment and allow core services to resume normal operation. The automated status reset feature has been running intermittently in a controlled environment to ensure users status’ are reset appropriately.. 

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To reduce the chances of a recurrence and improve our response time, the following actions are being taken:

• Enhanced Monitoring: We are implementing additional early detection alerts for database connection utilization. This will allow us to intervene before the limit is reached.
• Infrastructure Updates: We are increasing the number of permissible connections to the database to facilitate faster recovery during database restarts.
• Rapid Recovery Protocol: While we finalize the permanent root cause fix, we have implemented a rapid recovery protocol, which will allow the team to instantly clear hanging connections, reducing potential recovery time from several minutes to under 60 seconds.

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We apologize for the disruption caused by today’s unplanned downtime. We thank everyone for their patience and continued support.