We are committed to ensuring a consistent and reliable service experience. Therefore, we believe it’s critical that you know how to stay informed about any potential service interruptions or degradations, should they occur.
Planned Maintenance
As part of our commitment to providing top-notch service, we may occasionally need to schedule essential updates, migrations, or maintenance tasks that could result in temporary downtime on our platform. Please be assured that we consistently plan these activities outside of standard operating hours to minimize potential disruption.
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Service Degradation
Reporting a potential issue
If you wish to report strange behaviour that has not already been communicated as an ongoing issue, you can let us know at incident.contact@stuart.com using the following template:
Being informed of an ongoing issue
In the event of unexpected service degradation, you can receive notifications to inform you of the following:
- An initial notification that we may be experiencing service degradation*
- Regular updates every 20 minutes should the issue persist
- A conclusive update once the incident has been effectively resolved
- Please note that for incidents shorter than 30 minutes you may not receive incident notification. We aim to issue these as quickly as possible once we have confirmation a legitimate issue with our service.
Receiving postmortem details following an issue
Following an incidence of service degradation, you can receive a Postmortem report within 5 working days detailing the following:
- The start and end times of the incident
- The severity of the incident
- Service degradation - referring to a decline in the quality or performance of a service
- Major incident - referring to a significant disruption of service
- A summary of the incident alongside analysis including: Cause, Impact, Detection, Response, Recovery, and Recurrence