API Latency above 2 seconds

Incident Report for Embedly

Resolved

This incident has been resolved.
Posted Jul 13, 2015 - 21:17 EDT

Update

We have isolated the traffic spike and responses should be returning to normal.
Posted Jul 13, 2015 - 21:13 EDT

Monitoring

We are bringing up more boxes to handle the load.
Posted Jul 13, 2015 - 20:40 EDT

Identified

We are seeing a large traffic spike of about 1000 req/sec.
Posted Jul 13, 2015 - 20:23 EDT

Investigating

We are looking into some latency issues, our reporting indicates latency is above 2 seconds. It's normally at 500 milliseconds.
Posted Jul 13, 2015 - 20:20 EDT