Admins may have experienced delays in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Title: Admins may have experienced delays in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
User impact: Admins may have experienced delays in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.
More info: Admins also experienced the following issues:
– Delays in activities processing
– Delays in advanced hunting data
– Delays in discovery of new applications and changes to existing ones
– Delays in policies enforcement, alerts, and governance actions
Final status: We’ve processed the backlog of requests and confirmed via telemetry that impact has been remediated.
Start time: Sunday, January 21, 2024, at 2:30 AM UTC
End time: Sunday, January 21, 2024, at 2:00 PM UTC
Root cause: A portion of upstream infrastructure that facilitates Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps functionality wasn’t performing efficiently, which resulted in impact.
Next update by: Sunday, January 21, 2024, at 4:00 PM UTC
Next steps:
– We’re analyzing performance data and trends on the affected infrastructure to help prevent this problem from happening again.
This is the final update for the event.