I/O contention on leader database

Incident Report for Atlassian Statuspage

Resolved

This incident has been resolved.
Posted Aug 25, 2015 - 21:11 PDT

Monitoring

An errant cron task was causing duplicate backups to be generated, and caused an overwhelming amount of disk I/O. Everything is up and functioning properly again. We've removed the errant cron task.
Posted Aug 25, 2015 - 17:36 PDT

Investigating

The site is currently experiencing a higher than normal amount of load, and may be causing pages to be slow or unresponsive. We're investigating the cause and will provide an update as soon as possible.
Posted Aug 25, 2015 - 17:13 PDT