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Status | Documenting |
Summary | Prod Green server went down due to a scheduled retirement of the instance |
Impact | Bulk Upload unavailable |
Non-technical Description
One of the servers that the TIS application is load-balanced between became unavailable.
After contacting AWS Support it turns out the server was shut down due to a scheduled retirement of the instance caused by underlying hardware issues.
Trigger
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Detection
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Resolution
.We did not receive any emails from AWS informing us of this scheduled retirement as the address they send emails to (caaa@hee.nhs.uk) is not managed by our team
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Trigger
Server instance state was “stopped” when looking at it in AWS
Detection
Slack Alert at 4:02 AM on
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Resolution
The server was restarted and started functioning accordingly
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Timeline
~04:00 - Components started shutting down
04:00 02 - Alerts triggered on slack : -
08:50 - VM restarted in cloud console. Generic Upload available again.
10:35 - Ticket opened with AWS Support
10:55 - Response received from AWS Support
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Root Cause(s)
The AMI used by the instance was deletedCould this be due to the recent log4j vulnerability?AWS notifies us that the instance was stopped due to scheduled retirement caused by an “unrecoverable issue with the underlying hardware”.
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Action Items
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Action Items | Owner |
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Investigate what triggered the server to go down |
Lessons Learned
Mitigate this happening again by making sure we receive emails from AWS |
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Lessons Learned
Make sure we receive emails from AWS instead of it going to an account not managed by our team