Webhooks delivery degradation
Severity: Minor
Category: Dependencies
Service: GitHub
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Overview
Webhooks delivery degradation caused delayed writes of webhook delivery records to the database, making many webhook deliveries not visible in the UI or API for over an hour.
Impact
Customers were temporarily unable to request redeliveries for delayed records.
Trigger
Throttling of database writes due to high replication lag
Detection
Not specified in the postmortem report
Resolution
Temporarily disabling delivery history for a small number of very high-volume webhook owners to reduce write pressure and stabilize the service
Root Cause
Throttling of database writes due to high replication lag