An update on our investigation to solve intermittent iframe loading problems in Connect apps

Hi everyone,

Thank you to those who uploaded further information to help us troubleshoot this problem.

@nick @jack we have not deployed any changes beyond additional diagnostics/monitoring that would solve the problem. Given that at this stage, we haven’t ruled out a browser issue, it’s possible that a recent change to Chrome/Firefox/etc. has improved the situation.

Unfortunately, we have not yet identified the root cause of the problem. Despite this, I want to provide an update on our on-going investigation.

As we analysed data from affected apps, we were able to identify cases where the problem was due to an issue in the app itself. This is a pertinent reminder that the generic nature of the error makes it hard to identify the source of the error. Cases where we identified bugs in the app were solved in collaboration with the app developer.

We re-investigated potential reliability issues with the CDN. We identified ~0.05% of requests failing after a HTTP 200 response with a ClientConnectionError. We do not believe this is the source of the problem, but are still investigating.

We also investigated the HAR files uploaded to us via the survey form. One file showed an interesting scenario of duplicate GET requests to the iframe. To dig into this further, we’re building further analytics to see if this is a regular occurrence. Further investigation of this clue is proceeding.

If your app is still experiencing this problem, we encourage you to upload diagnostics for us to analyse at http://go.atlassian.com/connect-app-load-failure-survey. More information will increase the likelihood that we can identify a pattern of behaviour that leads to the root cause.

Thanks for your continued help in working to solve this problem for our shared customers.

Regards,
Joe Clark [Atlassian]

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