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Increased Errors across Affirm Services

Major outage Lasted 8h 24m · started · Affirm's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Major outage
Components
US, US, US - Shop Pay Installments
Regions
us
Down Index
48of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use Affirm US, US, US - Shop Pay Installments in us. Check your stack

    Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.
  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 8h 24m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2024-11-25 20:28 UTC and 2024-11-26 04:52 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from Affirm 15

  1. investigating

    Our teams have identified an increase in errors across Affirm services that are impacting checkouts. We are working on identifying the root cause of the issue to mitigate the impact. We will update as soon as possible.

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  2. investigating

    We are still working on identifying the root cause of the issue and mitigating the issue. We will update as soon as possible.

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  3. identified

    Our teams have identified the issue and are working on implementing fixes to mitigate the issue.

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  4. identified

    Our teams have implemented a fix and are monitoring to see if services recover.

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  5. identified

    Our services are still impacted. We are working on additional mitigation methods to restore service.

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  6. identified

    The root cause is related to excessive traffic on our backend database. Our teams are working on relieving the load on our database. We are implementing a fix to cause temporary relief that will allow recovery to occur.

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  7. identified

    We're monitoring the effects of a change our teams just implemented. We will update on next steps as soon as possible.

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  8. identified

    The recent update has resulted in Shop Pay Installments availability to drop substantially. We will update as soon as possible.

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  9. identified

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

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  10. identified

    Affirm's end to end conversion rate has dropped sharply due to increased error rates. We are continuing to work on identifying a solution to mitigate this issue.

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  11. identified

    Affirm is still experiencing degraded service and high error rates. We are continuing to work on identifying a solution to mitigate this issue.

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  12. identified

    We are performing a controlled recovery and expect resolution in about 1 hour.

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  13. identified

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

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  14. monitoring

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

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  15. resolved

    The issue has been resolved and all services have been restored to full functionality.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-5808917363

Is Affirm still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2024-11-26 04:52 UTC. For Affirm's live state, see https://down.guide/affirm.

How long did it last?

8h 24m, from 2024-11-25 20:28 UTC to 2024-11-26 04:52 UTC, by the times Affirm posted.

What was affected?

Affirm named US, US, US - Shop Pay Installments in us.

What caused it?

Affirm hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Affirm's official status page, https://status.affirm.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.