Post-Mortem on 19/20 March 2025 Outage
A misconfigured Ansible update and an outdated static IP address caused a 16-minute outage across all Magic Pages customer sites on 19/20 March 2025.
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A misconfigured Ansible update and an outdated static IP address caused a 16-minute outage across all Magic Pages customer sites on 19/20 March 2025.
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