Increased database load Saturday 16th September 2017 16:41:00


Frontend application on a1 system (mostly impacted) was unstable due to a query which hit database master instead of slave.

This has caused no downtime, but made some requests take longer than usual.

Also, it took us a bit to identify the issue as it had weird manifestations.

This might have been caused by enabling some feature, as all systems were stable up until:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs have sorted it.