Incident: Call Routing Interruption Affecting Be My Eyes Connections

Incident Report for Be My Eyes

Resolved

Users were unable to connect calls due to upstream infrastructure issues.

Timeline
- 06:55 UTC: We detected elevated failure rates in call-routing attempts. Initial alert issued.
- 08:46 UTC: Engineering team confirmed that the issue spans our call-routing subsystem; investigation initiated.
- 09:11 UTC: It was determined that root cause stems from an external disruption in our cloud provider’s infrastructure, affecting our connectivity and routing flows.
- 11:49 UTC: Recovery achieved: calls began routing again.

Root Cause
The disruption was triggered by a major infrastructure outage at our upstream cloud provider. The provider reported that the incident began in the US-East-1 region, and involved an increase in error rates and latencies across multiple services.
Posted Oct 20, 2025 - 06:30 UTC