Written by David. Much thanks to Lukasz for technical and moral support, and helping me grep the Papertrail logs.
All times are in EST.
- Downtime window: 8:00 AM - 8:25 AM
- Total downtime: 25 minutes
Heroku PGBackups was running during a database migration, and was unexpectedly holding a lock. Postgres stopped serving any queries until the backup was canceled.