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Database Issue Causing Platform Performance Degradation

Partial outage Lasted 2h 13m · started · Bird's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
Analytics - US (West), Campaigns - US (West), Contacts - US (West)
Regions
us
Down Index
33of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use Bird Analytics - US (West), Campaigns - US (West), Contacts - US (West) in us. Check your stack

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  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 2h 13m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-01-27 18:56 UTC and 2026-01-27 21:10 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from Bird 6

  1. investigating

    We are currently experiencing a database performance issue that is impacting multiple platform services. Customers may encounter timeouts, slow response times, and intermittent errors when accessing the following areas: * CDP (Customer Data Platform) - Data synchronization and profile updates may be delayed * Campaigns - Campaign creation, editing, and sending operations may be affected Our engineering team is actively investigating the database issue and working to restore normal service. We will provide updates as we make progress toward resolution.

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  2. identified

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

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  3. identified

    The team has made additional adjustments and we have started seeing accelerated recovery of the cluster.

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  4. identified

    We have identified which hardware was causing the issues and are replacing it. We are already seeing some improvement and expect that to continue.

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  5. monitoring

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

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  6. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

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Corrections

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Questions about DWN-861aebeafc

Is Bird still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-01-27 21:10 UTC. For Bird's live state, see https://down.guide/messagebird.

How long did it last?

2h 13m, from 2026-01-27 18:56 UTC to 2026-01-27 21:10 UTC, by the times Bird posted.

What was affected?

Bird named Analytics - US (West), Campaigns - US (West), Contacts - US (West) in us.

What caused it?

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

Where does this come from?

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