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Incident postmortem
Postmortem: Lowtide On-Sale Checkout Outage
Authors: Dani Okonkwo (incident commander), Priyanka Velasquez (reservation service)
Review held: May 20, 2026 · Format: blameless. We examine systems and decisions, not individuals.
Summary
At 10:00 PT on May 16, tickets for the Lowtide Music Festival went on sale to 38,400 fans in our virtual waiting room. Within two minutes, the reservation service began refusing database connections, and checkout failed for most buyers until 11:19. The cause was a mismatch between per-pod connection pool sizes and the database connection limit, which the autoscaler exposed by adding pods faster than we had ever tested.
Impact
• 38,400 fans queued; 11,250 checkout attempts failed with a 500 or timeout.
• 1,870 seat holds were created and never released, temporarily hiding inventory.
• 143 customers were charged without receiving a ticket. All were fulfilled or refunded by 18:00 PT the same day.
What happened and how to prevent it
The prompt
Create a Doc blameless incident postmortem for the checkout outage during the Lowtide Music Festival ticket on-sale on May 16, 2026 affecting the Halyard Tickets reservation service, checkout API and virtual waiting room, which impacted about 38,400 fans in the queue. Include a summary, impact, a timeline table, root cause, contributing factors, what went well, what went poorly, and action items with owners and due dates.
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Our 12 pilot machines produce 68% of plant revenue. Today we service them on fixed calendar schedules, which means we sometimes replace parts that are still healthy and miss failures that develop between inspections.
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tobias.wennerstrom@mail.example · (614) 555-0178 · Columbus, Ohio · linkedin.example/in/twennerstrom
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Operations leader with 9 years in high-volume distribution, from the dock floor to supervising a 46-person, three-shift fulfillment center. Known for lifting on-time shipping, cutting damage and overtime, and building crews that stay. Ready to take on multi-site accountability across a regional network.
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