# Incident retro - Images search down **Incident from:** 2023-06-26 **Incident until:** 2023-06-26 **Retro held:** 2023-06-27 * [Timeline](#timeline) * [Analysis of causes](#analysis-of-causes) * [Actions](#actions) ## Timeline See [https://wellcome.slack.com/archives/C01FBFSDLUA/p1686565392141259](https://wellcome.slack.com/archives/C01FBFSDLUA/p1687798519681599) 26 June 2023 17.07 AG mmmh there doesn't seem to be much in the indexes I'm going to scale down for the night and look at it tomorrow > > Incident actually starts here, when AG runs terraform to scale down the services tasked with ingesting and indexing the catalogue into the newly created pipeline-2023-06-26 (so as not to pay for the extra resources overnight since full reindex would only be run 27 june) However, running the command without targeting the specific pipeline-2023-06-26 applied some config to the live pipeline-2023-06-09 that was only intended for the pipeline-2023-06-26, rendering the index basically “unqueryable” AG \[colour vectors] Perform reindex (actually catalogue-pipeline) [#664](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/catalogue-api/issues/664) 17.23 Updown down alerts for API: Images: Image See Realising the index mapping is wrong for pipeline-2023-06-09 AG runs terraform cmd to put it back the way it should be 17.55 AG Image search is down at the moment because of some tangle I got myself into 17.57 JP OK - it looks like (guessing) when Terraform is asked to do a non-additive mapping change it destroys and recreates the index\ As a GET images-indexed-2023-06-09/\_count is giving me 39 images\ Obviously that’s not ideal\ However I think the number in images-augmented looks correct 18.05 JP ran the reingest for display script that only ingested the 39 documents that were in the API index. 18.09 JP started ingesting all the documents from the previous stage of the images pipeline 18.39 Up API: Images: Image 19.25 Up Experience: Works: Images (origin) Experience: Works: Images (cached) 20.30 reingestion completed ## Analysis of causes * (PB) When I wrote the new way of creating indices, I didn’t sufficiently poka-yoke \[mistake-proof] it. There wasn’t a safeguard against destroy-and-replace on existing indices. * (PB) pipeline/terraform/modules/pipeline\_indices/main.tf has the config dates in it. * Terraform plan output is too long to be comprehensible ## Actions **Paul** * pipeline/terraform/modules/pipeline\_indices/main.tf config dates are hard coded but should be a variable [#2394](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/catalogue-pipeline/pull/2394) * Investigate prevent destroy for the indexes **Alex/Jamie** * RFC for having separate stacks per pipeline [#2393](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/catalogue-pipeline/issues/2393) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.wellcomecollection.org/incident-retros/2023-06-26_images_search_down.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.