What happened
What this says
Current to 14 Oct 26Brain completely unresponsive for several hours; all queries timing out, blocking customer operations. Enterprise P1 incident. Bethan identified and resolved indexing service bottleneck.
Problem: Indexing service encountered a bottleneck causing complete system unresponsiveness and all queries timing out.
Handling: Bethan Lister identified the issue on BB-Demo's backend and resolved the bottleneck, restoring normal response times. First response was 47 minutes.
Watch: Service missed Enterprise P1 30-minute response target. On-call procedures worked but escalation timing for critical incidents requires review.
Details
Updated 9 Oct 26Trail
- public_reply · Bethan Lister 19 Jun 2026 11:08Hi Josh, just checking in - are you experiencing any issues with the brain this morning?
- internal_note · Bethan Lister 19 Jun 2026 12:41Issue identified on our end. Indexing service hit a bottleneck. Investigating now.
- public_reply · Josh Pearce 19 Jun 2026 13:34Yeah, we're getting timeouts across the board. Everything's down. This is affecting our team's ability to serve our clients.
- created · Josh Pearce 19 Jun 2026 15:47The brain is completely unresponsive. All queries are timing out and our client managers can't access search. This has been down for several hours now and is critical to our operations.
- public_reply · Bethan Lister 19 Jun 2026 16:34Thanks for that. I've picked this up and we've resolved the indexing bottleneck. The brain should be responding normally now. Can you try a search and tell me what you see?
- status_change · 23 Jun 2026 23:59