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Summary | Revalidation was intermittently not working or unusably slow
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Impact | No-one was able to reliably see or do any in the revalidation website. |
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A bulk background change to data caused the system to be too busy to process normal activity.
Its possible there was some overlap with an attack that was being experienced by GMC, so this has muddied the waters a bit
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Trigger
A bulk data cleanup script (mongock) proved to be too intensive and blocked connection to the database from the application
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