Link lookups melt the database

Incident drill · Starter

What is happening

Alert: database CPU 100% and redirect errors climbing since the promo SMS went out.

Every redirect that misses the CDN looks the link up in the database, and most of them are the same few links.

Bring redirects back under target without blowing the budget.

You have 3 changes and 6 minutes. A change is adding or removing a part or a connection, or changing a part’s settings. Fewer changes and less time score higher.