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Scheduled Maintenance Report for BoxExchanger

Postmortem

Monitoring Stack Upgrade

Date: Nov 22, 2025
Status: Completed

Summary

On November 22, 2025, we performed scheduled maintenance to upgrade the BoxExchanger monitoring stack, including Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, Alertmanager, and Node Exporter.
The upgrade was completed successfully and without service interruption for any BoxExchanger systems.

Impact

There was no downtime for any production services.
During a short period of the maintenance window, some internal monitoring data (server load statistics, performance metrics, and alerts) may have experienced delayed ingestion or temporary gaps.
This affected monitoring dashboards only and had no impact on customer-facing functionality.

Root Cause

This was a planned maintenance activity. The temporary gaps in metric collection occurred while components of the monitoring stack were being restarted and migrated to the upgraded versions.

What Was Updated

The following components were successfully upgraded:

  • VictoriaMetrics
  • Grafana
  • Alertmanager
  • Node Exporter

These updates include performance improvements, security patches, and upstream enhancements.

Mitigation & Resolution

All monitoring services were restarted in controlled order to minimize disruptions.
Metric ingestion resumed normally after the upgrades were applied.
Dashboards and alerts were verified to be functioning correctly.

Current Status

All systems are operating normally.
Monitoring performance and data ingestion have been fully restored.

If you have any questions, please contact our support team at support@boxexchanger.com.

Posted Nov 22, 2025 - 20:24 UTC

Completed

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Posted Nov 22, 2025 - 20:19 UTC

Verifying

Verification is currently underway for the maintenance items.
Posted Nov 22, 2025 - 20:15 UTC

In progress

Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Nov 22, 2025 - 20:02 UTC

Scheduled

We will be updating our monitoring stack (including Grafana and related components).
No service downtime is expected, and all BoxExchanger services will continue to operate normally.
However, during this period we might temporarily stop receiving or analyzing server load statistics and performance metrics.
Posted Nov 21, 2025 - 00:07 UTC
This scheduled maintenance affected: Metrics & Logs (Grafana system).