# Data API Unavailable - Provider: [Lever](https://down.guide/lever) - Level: confirmed - Impact: Partial outage - lasted 3d 2h - started 2025-02-18 22:48 UTC - Integration API & Webhooks - us - id: DWN-f9196af291 - Official page: https://stspg.io/ptps2y0sf2pg ## Updates from Lever ### 2025-02-18 22:48 UTC: identified We’ve identified an issue with the Lever Data API, and we’re working to implement a fix. The data API will be unavailable as we work to resolve the behaviors. Additional updates will be provided as soon as a resolution is in place. ### 2025-02-18 22:48 UTC: identified We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. ### 2025-02-18 23:26 UTC: monitoring A short term fix has been implemented for the issue that was identified while our team works to implement a long term fix. Customers should now be able to leverage the data API while our team continues their investigation. We’re currently monitoring to ensure that there are no further issues, and we’ll send a final update to confirm that there have been no recurrences. ### 2025-02-19 13:47 UTC: identified Our team has identified an issue with the Lever Data API. Our team has a short term fix in place while we work to implement a full resolution. Customers may experience intermittent issues while we work towards a full resolution. Our engineering teams are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible. ### 2025-02-19 17:22 UTC: monitoring Customers should now be able to utilize Lever Data APIs with no issues. We’re currently monitoring to ensure that there are no further issues, and we’ll send a final update to confirm that there have been no recurrences. ### 2025-02-22 01:17 UTC: resolved The issue where the Lever Data API being unavailable has been resolved. There should be no further impact at this time, but please reach out to us at Support if any additional assistance is needed: https://help.lever.co/hc/en-us/requests/new ### 2025-03-19 20:28 UTC: postmortem On the early morning of Feb 18, 2025 \\(Pacific Time\\), Lever product engineers were alerted by internal monitoring tools for a database instance being unavailable. Around 50% of customers may have initially experienced higher latency on Lever Hire and the Lever API. A few hours later, compounding issues in the database replicas caused Lever Hire to be inaccessible for those ~50% of customers, for a few hours. The impacted customer accounts were unable to access Lever Hire and candidate-related Data API endpoints at all on Feb 18 from 5:55-10:05 PST \\(the longest outage, ~4 hours\\), 14:08-14:18, 14:48-14:52, 21:52-22:09; and Feb 19 from 00:06-00:14. Lever-hosted job sites continued to work for all customers. Lever product engineers were engaged for investigation and troubleshooting pointed to database issues caused by unusual external Lever API load. The issue was resolved by: \* Rebuilding the affected database replicas \* Spreading Lever API load across additional database replicas As part of this database recovery and mitigation measures, the Lever API also became inaccessible for all customers for a few hours. The database rebuild also caused some Lever Hire pipeline numbers and search results to be temporarily out of sync. To mitigate this situation from occurring in the future and to reduce the risk of a future impact the following measures have been put into place: \* Per above, spreading Lever API load across additional database replicas \* Limiting database time for individual Lever API requests, to prevent a few individual requests from having a wider impact \* Optimizing database query performance From the builder: does your app depend on Lever? [Sazabi](https://www.sazabi.com/?utm_source=down-guide&utm_medium=markdown&utm_content=lever) detects problems in your own logs without hand-written monitors, and you can ask it in plain language which errors mention Lever. --- down.guide reads providers' official status pages every minute and adds its own evidence, always labeled. Free, no account. Agents: MCP at https://down.guide/mcp, REST at https://down.guide/api/v1, feeds at https://down.guide/feed. Built by [Sazabi](https://www.sazabi.com/?utm_source=down-guide&utm_medium=markdown&utm_content=DWN-f9196af291), AI-native observability and security: automatic issue detection, plain-language log search and live dashboards.