diff --git a/content/2016-07.md b/content/2016-07.md
index 1b140fb0b..7b0b523ad 100644
--- a/content/2016-07.md
+++ b/content/2016-07.md
@@ -92,3 +92,30 @@ $ ./delete-metadata-values.py -f dc.contributor.author -i /tmp/Authors-Delete-UT
- Adjust identifiers in XMLUI item display to be more prominent
- Add species and breed to the XMLUI item display
+- CGSpace crashed late at night and the DSpace logs were showing:
+
+```
+2016-07-18 20:26:30,941 ERROR org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager @ SQL connection Error -
+org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot get a connection, pool error Timeout waiting for idle object
+...
+```
+
+- I suspect it's someone hitting REST too much:
+
+```
+# awk '{print $1}' /var/log/nginx/rest.log | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -h | tail -n 3
+ 710 66.249.78.38
+ 1781 181.118.144.29
+ 24904 70.32.99.142
+```
+
+- I just blocked access to `/rest` for that last IP for now:
+
+```
+ # log rest requests
+ location /rest {
+ access_log /var/log/nginx/rest.log;
+ proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8443;
+ deny 70.32.99.142;
+ }
+```
diff --git a/public/2016-07/index.html b/public/2016-07/index.html
index d0af10a75..c0e413d7c 100644
--- a/public/2016-07/index.html
+++ b/public/2016-07/index.html
@@ -186,8 +186,36 @@ $ ./delete-metadata-values.py -f dc.contributor.author -i /tmp/Authors-Delete-UT
- Adjust identifiers in XMLUI item display to be more prominent
- Add species and breed to the XMLUI item display
+- CGSpace crashed late at night and the DSpace logs were showing:
+2016-07-18 20:26:30,941 ERROR org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager @ SQL connection Error -
+org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot get a connection, pool error Timeout waiting for idle object
+...
+
+
+
+- I suspect it’s someone hitting REST too much:
+
+
+# awk '{print $1}' /var/log/nginx/rest.log | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -h | tail -n 3
+ 710 66.249.78.38
+ 1781 181.118.144.29
+ 24904 70.32.99.142
+
+
+
+- I just blocked access to
/rest
for that last IP for now:
+
+
+ # log rest requests
+ location /rest {
+ access_log /var/log/nginx/rest.log;
+ proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8443;
+ deny 70.32.99.142;
+ }
+
+