Major incident

Phrase: Degraded Performance of Translation center in Phrase Strings (EU & US) between July 10, 2026 16:21 CEST and July 10, 2026 17:13 CEST

Affected: Translation center, Translation center

Current status of Phrase: Operational — live Phrase status

Timeline

1. Jul 10, 2026, 14:24 UTC
   investigating
   We are currently investigating an issue affecting the Translation Center in Phrase Strings (EU and US regions), where strings are failing to load. Our engineering team has identified a potential cause and is actively working to resolve it. We will provide further updates as our investigation progresses.
2. Jul 10, 2026, 14:37 UTC
   monitoring
   A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
3. Jul 10, 2026, 15:24 UTC
   resolved
   This incident has been resolved.
4. Aug 7, 2026, 07:14 UTC
   postmortem
   ## Introduction On July 10, 2026, parts of the Phrase Strings frontend at [app.phrase.com](http://app.phrase.com/) failed to load correctly for a short period, after required stylesheets and scripts failed to load — the underlying service itself stayed available. The issue began at 16:08 CEST and was resolved by 16:27 CEST. This post-mortem explains what happened and what we're doing to prevent a recurrence. ## Timeline * **Jul 10, 2026 at 16:08 CEST** – A deployment introduced new application assets that were never uploaded to our storage service, so the application could no longer load its stylesheets and scripts for customers. * **Jul 10, 2026 at 16:21 CEST** – Issue detected, incident declared. * **Jul 10, 2026 at 16:24 CEST** – Root cause identified. * **Jul 10, 2026 at 16:26 CEST** – Fix applied. * **Jul 10, 2026 at 16:27 CEST** – Customer-facing impact ended. * **Jul 10, 2026 at 16:32 CEST** – Incident downgraded to monitoring while the underlying configuration was addressed. * **Jul 10, 2026 at 17:12 CEST** – Configuration corrected, incident resolved. ## Root Cause During a planned, routine maintenance, a configuration change unintentionally disabled the process that uploads application assets \(stylesheets, scripts\) to our storage and content-delivery service. This went unnoticed at first, since the assets already in place kept working and no new versions had been shipped yet. On July 10, 2026, a deployment shipped new versions of these assets. Because uploading was still disabled, the new files never reached the storage service, and the application could not load its stylesheets and scripts. ## Actions to Prevent Recurrence 1. **Asset synchronization re-enabled** – The disabled process was fixed, restoring correct asset delivery. 2. **Asset availability monitoring** – Adding monitoring to detect asset load failures automatically, before customers are affected.

Updates as published by Phrase (original).