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Incident explanation for API issue Jan 2025
Incident explanation for API issue Jan 2025

We have been made aware of multiple customers facing slow metadata retrieval.

Terrance Harris avatar
Written by Terrance Harris
Updated over a week ago

Incident reported: 5 January

What's the issue?

Since 5th of January 2025, Gearset was made aware of slowness in the retrieval of metadata using the Salesforce Metadata API. So far we have confirmed that the following Salesforce instances are facing this issue.

Instance

Resolved?

CS63

Yes

CS215

Yes

DEU114S

Yes

SWE60S

Yes

USA250S

Yes

USA258S

Yes

USA260S

Yes

USA262S

Yes

USA270S

Yes

USA28S

Yes

USA420

No

USA480

No

USA534S

Yes

USA654S

Yes

USA 656S

Yes

USA660S

Yes

USA666S

Yes

US668S

Yes

USA670S

Yes

USA672S

Yes

USA682

No

USA732

No

USA754S

Yes

USA756S

Yes

USA888S

No

We will continue to update this list as we gain more information.

What's the cause?

When running a test using Workbench (an independent application), which uses the same Salesforce Metadata API as Gearset, users are able to replicate a longer than expected retrieval time on the same orgs with the same metadata.

We are asking all users to run these tests to allow us to confirm if the cause of their comparison retrieval issue is the Salesforce Metadata API.

If the retrieval is much faster in Workbench then it can be useful to start the comparison again to see if it is a transient issue. If the retrieval is fast in Workbench but still slow in Gearset then please let us know through the in app chat.

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