What happened
What this says
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026Dan Hosken reported that the Salesforce connector stopped syncing and failed to recover during the nightly refresh on 3 Jul 2026 at 02:47, blocking customer analysis work. Olivia Grant identified authentication loss during the refresh cycle and engaged the engineering team to restore connectivity.
Problem: The Salesforce connector lost authentication during the nightly refresh cycle on 3 Jul 2026 at 02:47, stopping data ingestion and leaving the brain stale with no recovery until manual intervention by the engineering team.
Handling: Olivia identified the authentication loss as the root cause, escalated to the platform engineering team, and worked to restore the data load. First response was within two hours of the report.
Watch: Connector authentication is fragile; rotations or permission changes at the source often cause outages. Customer reported impact immediately, showing good system monitoring.
Details
Updated 9 Oct 26Trail
- Internal note · Olivia Grant 3 Jul 2026 13:16Salesforce connector last indexed at 02:47 on 3 Jul 2026. No activity since. Refresh jobs timing out. Root cause under investigation.
- created · Dan Hosken 3 Jul 2026 16:55Salesforce connector is stuck. Last indexed at 02:47 on 3 Jul 2026 and nothing since. The nightly refresh seems to be failing. Can you investigate?
- Public reply · Olivia Grant 3 Jul 2026 18:59Hi Dan, I've found the issue: the Salesforce connector lost authentication during the refresh cycle this morning. The data load is blocked. I'm working with the engineering team to resolve this now. I'll update you as soon as we have a fix. Thanks, Olivia.
- Status change · 14 Jul 2026 23:59