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SmartBots back at 100% – taking care of your bots, babies and business

Dear SmartBots users,

Thank you for keeping your bots with SmartBots. We launched SmartBots 15 years ago – we know Second Life inside out, and we work every day to make the service better for you.

Recently, we (and you) experienced some unexpected outages. We underestimated the risk to part of our infrastructure, assuming that backups and a replacement hardware would be enough. Unfortunately, this time they weren’t.

We want to explain what happened, what we’ve done about it and what we are doing next to improve SmartBots for you.

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Bots Playground Is Up and Running

Bots Playground is fully operational again. All scripts are now running smoothly.

The Playground was originally launched as a proof-of-concept to support a few dozen user scripts. Since then, it’s grown significantly and now runs several thousand scripts simultaneously. This scale has brought engineering challenges.

Issue details

During our recent platform migration, we upgraded the JavaScript sandboxes to run across multiple servers. However, a configuration oversight (specifically, a network socket limitation on the main Playground process) caused an unexpected cluster-wide crash.

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Bots Playground scheduled maintenance

We will be improving Bots Playground on June 04th 02:00-12:00 SLT: making Playground faster, reliable and more performant.

The Playground interface may not be available, and your scripts might restart several times.

Unscheduled Bots Playground Maintenance

Bots Playground has received an update today: we’ve got script folders for script creators convenience.

Unfortunately we occasionally hit a Second Life maintenance window so some scripts were not started automatically despite of our efforts. Please visit your Bots Playground to ensure that all required scripts are running.

My personal apologies for the inconvenience! 🙏

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