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Final Update: Wednesday, 28 April 2021 02:39 UTC

We’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal with no customer impact as of 04/27, 02:10 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 04/27, 01:46 UTC and that during the 24 minutes that it took to resolve the issue 5% of customers experienced data access issues and delayed or missed alerts in South East Australia.
  • Root Cause: Engineers determined that backend storage device became unhealthy.
  • Mitigation: Engineers determined that the service is auto recovered by Azure platform.
  • Incident Timeline: 24 minutes – 04/27, 01:46 UTC through 04/27, 02:10 UTC
We understand that customers rely on Azure Log Analytics as a critical service and apologize for any impact this incident caused.

-Vincent

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