Juicebox incident runbook

Juicebox Incident Runbook

Overview

Incident response procedures for Juicebox AI analysis platform integration failures. Covers analysis timeouts, dataset corruption, quota exhaustion, and export failures. Juicebox powers AI-driven people search and candidate analysis, so incidents disrupt recruiting pipelines, talent intelligence workflows, and automated sourcing. Classify severity immediately using the matrix below and follow the corresponding playbook.

Severity Levels

Level	Definition	Response Time	Example
P1 - Critical	Full API outage or dataset corruption	15 min	Health endpoint returns 5xx, analysis results missing
P2 - High	Analysis timeouts or export failures	30 min	Search queries hang beyond 30s, CSV exports fail
P3 - Medium	Quota exhaustion or rate limiting	2 hours	429 responses, account quota at 100% usage
P4 - Low	Partial data or degraded result quality	8 hours	Search returns fewer results than expected

Diagnostic Steps

# Check API health
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "HTTP %{http_code}\n" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JUICEBOX_API_KEY" \
  https://api.juicebox.ai/v1/health

# Check account quota usage
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $JUICEBOX_API_KEY" \
  https://api.juicebox.ai/v1/account/quota | jq '.used, .limit, .remaining'

# Test a minimal search request
curl -s -w "\nHTTP %{http_code}\n" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JUICEBOX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X POST https://api.juicebox.ai/v1/search \
  -d '{"query": "software engineer", "limit": 1}'

Incident Playbooks

API Outage

1. Confirm via health endpoint and status.juicebox.ai
2. Activate fallback mode — serve cached search results to active users
3. Pause any automated sourcing pipelines to avoid wasting quota on retries
4. Notify recruiting team that live search is temporarily unavailable
5. Monitor status page and resume operations once health check passes

Authentication Failure

1. Verify API key is set: echo $JUICEBOX_API_KEY | wc -c
2. Test with health endpoint (see diagnostics above)
3. If 401: API key may be revoked — regenerate in Juicebox dashboard
4. If 403: check account tier permissions for the requested endpoint
5. Deploy new key and verify search requests succeed

Data Sync Failure

1. Check if recent analysis results are returning stale or incomplete data
2. Verify export endpoints are responding — test a small CSV export
3. If exports fail: check if the analysis job completed successfully first
4. For dataset corruption: re-trigger the analysis with fresh parameters
5. Contact Juicebox support with job IDs and error responses

Communication Template

**Incident**: Juicebox Integration [Outage/Degradation]
**Status**: [Investigating/Identified/Mitigating/Resolved]
**Started**: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC
**Impact**: [Search unavailable / exports failing / quota exhausted / N recruiting workflows paused]
**Current action**: [Cached results active / quota upgrade requested / re-analysis running]
**Next update**: HH:MM UTC

Post-Incident

• Document timeline from detection to resolution
• Identify root cause (Juicebox outage / quota burn / export bug / auth expiry)
• Calculate impact: missed candidates, paused pipelines, stale data duration
• Add quota usage alerting at 80% threshold to prevent exhaustion
• Implement request caching to reduce redundant API calls
• Review automated pipeline frequency to avoid quota spikes

Error Handling

Incident Type	Detection	Resolution
Analysis timeout	Requests exceeding 30s SLA	Reduce query complexity, retry with smaller scope
Dataset corruption	Missing or inconsistent analysis results	Re-trigger analysis job, verify input parameters
Quota exhaustion	429 responses, quota endpoint shows 0 remaining	Pause automation, request quota increase, optimize usage
Export failure	CSV/JSON export returns error or empty payload	Verify analysis job completed, retry export with job ID

Resources

• Juicebox Status
• Juicebox API Docs

Next Steps

See juicebox-observability for monitoring setup and quota tracking dashboards.