Incident report 22/04/2021

On April 22nd, 2021, some users experienced service downtime, which started at around 5:40 pm CET and lasted until 6:20 pm CET (11:40 am - 12:40 pm ET).

The cause of the problem
A DDoS attack caused this problem. Our engineering team saw this in our real-time monitoring systems and reacted immediately.

How this affected some of our users
There were spaces that users couldn’t join due to server overload caused by this DDoS attack.Our team resolved the issue in 40 minutes.

Solution
The solution was to identify and block sources of malicious traffic as well as scale our backend infrastructure and improve load distribution to handle several times more requests than usual.To avoid similar problems in the future, we’ve prioritized our work to address our systems’ threat detection and scalability earlier than was previously scheduled.

Everyone who has been affected by this issue - we bring you our apology and commit to avoiding such problems in the future. Thank you for staying with us!

Best regards, 
SpatialChat Engineering Team