Enterprise media server terminated in US-EAST-1

Incident Report for Vonage API Status

Postmortem

Media Server Disconnected - US-EAST-1 

Date/Time Impacted

Start Time: Jan 26, 2024 15:01:00 UTC | End Time: Jan 26, 2024 15:20:00 UTC

Start Time: Feb 13, 2024 15:06:00 UTC | End Time: Feb 13,2024 15:07:00 UTC

Services Impacted

Video - Session Connection, Video - Archiving (Enterprise)

Video - Broadcast, Video - Media Connection (Enterprise).

Summary

A media server pod failed during rotation, causing the disconnection of existing sessions. New sessions were routed to a functioning media server pod.

Root Cause

During the rotation, one of the media server nodes was overloaded due to a bug on the Load Balancer end, which caused it not to scale the connections.

Restoration Actions

The issue was corrected on Jan 26, 2024, 15:20:00 UTC and Feb 13, 2024, 15:07:00 UTC by removing the media server pod.

Next Steps

It’s a known issue and the fix is ready to be deployed in production this week to protect us across all regions.

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Posted Feb 21, 2024 - 18:01 UTC

Resolved

At 2024/02/13 15:07 UTC, ONE Enterprise media-server got disconnected in US-EAST datacenter. Sessions on the node would have been impacted. New sessions were routed away and there is no further impact. For any further questions, please contact support at support@api.vonage.com.
Posted Feb 13, 2024 - 15:58 UTC
This incident affected: Video (Session Connection, Media Connection (Enterprise)).