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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-846BEBA4

Perplexity outage on September 5, 2025

Major severityResolved45 minAI Tools
Started · UTC
Sep 05, 04:30 PM
316d ago
Resolved · UTC
Sep 05, 05:15 PM
316d ago
Duration
45 min
End-to-end
Peak confidence
80.00
0 snapshots
// User impact

Perplexity users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this AI Tools service. The incident reached Major severity and lasted 45 min. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

Type: Incident Affected Components: API Sep 5, 17:25:07 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Sep 5, 16:30:00 GMT+0 - Resolved - We experienced an outage for the API that lasted roughly 20 minutes. This incident has been resolved.

Deterministic readout · awaiting AI summary pass

// Timeline
  1. Incident detected

    Major confidence crossed the incident threshold for API outage.

  2. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 45 min of observed impact.

// Signals by source0 sources

No per-source signal payloads were preserved in this incident's snapshot window.

// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

80.00

The incident reached 80.00 peak confidence across available stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

No elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.

Status samples

0 affected

The incident row exists, but the bounded snapshot window does not include affected status samples.

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 05:15 PM UTC.