Thursday, September 17th announcement: Kaltura outage restored.
6:10 p.m.
The Kaltura disruption has been addressed, and functionality restored as of 6:10 p.m. Thursday evening.
5:00 p.m.
Kaltura is experiencing a nation-wide disruption to the platform and is working to correct the issue and restore service. The disruption has impacted users since about 5 p.m. LITS will post an update as soon as the system is back up and running normally, or Kaltura provides us with additional updates.
Tuesday, September 8th update:
Kaltura has updated us that all maintenance and backlogs are complete and resolved and Kaltura is now fully functional. The work performed last week and over the holiday weekend should have resolved errors and delays in uploading, automatic captioning, and playback.
We appreciate your patience and understanding over the last week with ongoing issues, and do not anticipate that level of disruption again. For Kaltura support, please email digitalpedagogy-g@mtholyoke.edu.
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Letter from Friday, September 4th:
Dear faculty,
We know that Kaltura has been consistent in its unreliability since Wednesday, August 26, and we apologize for the errors you are encountering, both for their frequency and their variety. We fully expected Kaltura to resolve this issue on Sunday, August 30, and the ongoing issues that have emerged as they optimize their infrastructure upgrade are taking an unacceptably long time to resolve.
LITS has been in regular contact with the vendor as they work to resolve the instability that is causing problems like the one(s) you’ve experienced. While we have strongly expressed our concerns to Kaltura about the timing of their infrastructure upgrade and the issues that remain, we are confident in Kaltura’s ability to deliver a stable user experience in the coming weeks and months. Most recently, they have devoted additional resources to working on standing issues during the U.S. overnight hours, in the hopes of speeding up the time to resolution of these issues.
Please know that this situation is not unique to Mount Holyoke. We are in regular communication with other higher education institutions from across the country -- including our colleagues at Amherst, who also adopted Kaltura this past summer. The service disruptions we are experiencing are widespread.
We have asked for better communication regarding both planned outages and emerging problems, including more detailed information on anticipated time-to-resolution, and Kaltura has begun to provide this information to us on a regular basis. If you would like to have a sense of the state of the system at any given time, especially over the upcoming holiday weekend, you are welcome to visit https://status.kaltura.com, which is updated three times a day by the vendor.
LITS will release its next update on the state of Kaltura on Tuesday, September 8th.
We appreciate your patience and goodwill. We are doing all we can to restore service to acceptable levels.
For Kaltura support, please email digitalpedagogy-g@mtholyoke.edu.