Impact
On 16 January 2026 at 16:50 GMT, customers experienced a brief recurrence of intermittent search failures on the Searches API. This was a continuation of the incident that began earlier that day at 13:05 GMT.
Cause & Resolution
This issue shared the same root cause as the earlier incident on 16 January 2026. Please refer to that post mortem for full details.
Following additional tuning at 17:35 GMT, the service stabilised and no further issues were observed. We continued monitoring throughout the weekend with no recurrence.
Prevention Measures
As outlined in the post mortem for the incident on 16 January 2026.