Resolved incident

IDP Workflows and Backend failures

Harness · Minor · Started

Duration
1h 6m
Severity
Minor
Status
Postmortem

Summary

Minor · Postmortem

# **Customer RCA: Executive Summary** On June 17, 2026, between 9:30 PM and 10:15 PM IST, customers in certain production environments experienced failures when accessing IDP \(Internal Developer Portal\) workflows. The issue was caused by a configuration mismatch in service authentication settings. ## **Impact** * **Affected Service:** IDP workflows * **Duration:** Approximately 45 minutes \(9:30 PM - 10:15 PM IST\) * **Customer Impact:** Users were unable to load IDP workflows during this period. * **Data Loss:** None * **Security Impact:** None ## **Root Cause** During a planned service deployment, a configuration mismatch occurred in the authentication settings used for internal service-to-service communication. Specifically, the authentication credentials configured in the newly deployed service did not match the credentials expected by existing services in prod environments. This mismatch caused authentication failures when services attempted to communicate with each other, resulting in workflow loading failures for customers. ## **Mitigation** The issue was resolved by reverting the configuration change to restore the previous working authentication settings. The engineering team was proactively monitoring logs immediately after deployment and identified error patterns several minutes before the first customer report. ## **Action Items/Next Steps** 1. **Enhanced Pre-Deployment Validation:** Automated validation checks will be introduced to verify that all required configurations, secrets, and service dependencies are correctly provisioned and consistent across services before any production deployment. 2. **Improved Deployment Procedures:** Updated deployment checklists with explicit verification of service authentication settings across services before rollout.

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Event timeline

How this incident unfolded, from the official status page.

  1. Investigating

    Harness

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. Identified

    Harness

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. Identified

    Harness

    IDP Systems' communication was interrupted due to an update.  Harness is rolling back changes. Impacted environments - prod0, prod1, prod2

  4. Monitoring

    Harness

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  5. Resolved

    Harness

    This incident has been resolved.

  6. Postmortem

    Harness

    # **Customer RCA: Executive Summary** On June 17, 2026, between 9:30 PM and 10:15 PM IST, customers in certain production environments experienced failures when accessing IDP \(Internal Developer Portal\) workflows. The issue was caused by a configuration mismatch in service authentication settings. ## **Impact** * **Affected Service:** IDP workflows * **Duration:** Approximately 45 minutes \(9:30 PM - 10:15 PM IST\) * **Customer Impact:** Users were unable to load IDP workflows during this period. * **Data Loss:** None * **Security Impact:** None ## **Root Cause** During a planned service deployment, a configuration mismatch occurred in the authentication settings used for internal service-to-service communication. Specifically, the authentication credentials configured in the newly deployed service did not match the credentials expected by existing services in prod environments. This mismatch caused authentication failures when services attempted to communicate with each other, resulting in workflow loading failures for customers. ## **Mitigation** The issue was resolved by reverting the configuration change to restore the previous working authentication settings. The engineering team was proactively monitoring logs immediately after deployment and identified error patterns several minutes before the first customer report. ## **Action Items/Next Steps** 1. **Enhanced Pre-Deployment Validation:** Automated validation checks will be introduced to verify that all required configurations, secrets, and service dependencies are correctly provisioned and consistent across services before any production deployment. 2. **Improved Deployment Procedures:** Updated deployment checklists with explicit verification of service authentication settings across services before rollout.