Geomodifier Profile Field Unavailable

Incident Report for Yext

Postmortem

Summary

Starting around 10:00 PM ET on March 17, 2025, updates to Yext entities with the “Geomodifier” field began experiencing an increase in error rates. This caused an increase in downstream errors in Pages generation, API calls, and ETLs. The issue was resolved by 7:00 AM ET on March 18, 2025, and error rates returned to normal. No existing data was lost during this incident.

Root Cause

The root cause was the accidental disablement of a product feature during upgrades to our product feature system. Since this feature controlled access to the “Geomodifier” field, this disablement caused errors and incorrect display behavior when updating or viewing profiles using this field. 

Remediation

The issue was resolved by re-enabling the relevant product feature. Going forward, we will implement new protocols controlling the use and disablement of product features and build new classes of controls specifically for profile field availability.

Posted Mar 20, 2025 - 15:21 EDT

Resolved

This incident has been resolved.
Posted Mar 18, 2025 - 12:15 EDT

Monitoring

The issue has been identified and a fix has been made, and we are currently monitoring the results
Posted Mar 18, 2025 - 06:46 EDT

Investigating

We are investigating reports of a particular entity field, Geomodifier, to be unavailable, causing a partial outage in some downstream systems.
Posted Mar 18, 2025 - 06:40 EDT
This incident affected: Content (Content API, Management API), Listings (Listings Publishing), Pages (Pages Generation), and Managed Services ETLs.