Issue with Payments service

Incident Report for Tink

Postmortem

Introduction

On 17th November, Tink experienced a partial outage between 6:15 PM and 6:18 PM (CET) affecting the availability of the Payments products. During this time end-users were unable to initiate payments.

Root Cause Analysis

Increased traffic resulted in network issues with one of the Payment Initiation components, which caused a major product performance  degradation.

Remediation

Affected services were restarted at 6:18 PM (CST), services were stabilised and returned to a healthy state.

Follow-up actions

As a consequence of this incident we are focusing on the following actions:

  1. Optimization of the faulty service
  2. Improved monitoring and alerting for the platform
  3. More hardware resources configured for the faulting services
  4. Implementation of automatic restarts when similar faults are detected
Posted Nov 25, 2022 - 12:41 CET

Resolved

This incident has been resolved.
Posted Nov 17, 2022 - 19:31 CET

Investigating

We are currently investigating an issue with Payments service.
Posted Nov 17, 2022 - 18:23 CET
This incident affected: Payments.