Since September 5th, we have been seeing a large increase in the number of requests that fail to connect to the Salesforce API, due to ECONNREFUSED socket errors. A month later and we're still seeing hundreds of these requests failing each hour.
Our analysis reveals that it's no one particular organisation's subdomain or any particular API endpoints that are failing to respond to our connections.

Our question: Have there been any changes in the last month that would make connecting to the Salesforce API fail so often? Perhaps changes to firewalls, throttling limits, etc?

Any assistance with this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Zapier Integrations Team.

Here is a field extracted from the REST API endpoint (xx.salesforce.com/services/data/v23.0/sobjects/xx/describe):

 

{
   "length":0,
   "name":"ActivityDate",
   "type":"date",
   "defaultValue":null,
   "label":"Due Date Only",
   "updateable":true,
   "precision":0,
   "scale":0,
   "controllerName":null,
   "byteLength":0,
   "unique":false,
   "calculated":false,
   "nameField":false,
   "sortable":true,
   "filterable":true,
   "nillable":true,
   "caseSensitive":false,
   "inlineHelpText":null,
   "writeRequiresMasterRead":false,
   "externalId":false,
   "idLookup":false,
   "createable":true,
   "soapType":"xsd:date",
   "autoNumber":false,
   "restrictedPicklist":false,
   "namePointing":false,
   "custom":false,
   "defaultedOnCreate":false,
   "deprecatedAndHidden":false,
   "htmlFormatted":false,
   "defaultValueFormula":null,
   "calculatedFormula":null,
   "picklistValues":[

   ],
   "dependentPicklist":false,
   "referenceTo":[

   ],
   "relationshipName":null,
   "relationshipOrder":null,
   "digits":0,
   "groupable":true
}

 

When POSTing an Object using the REST API, we are given an error "Field ActivityDate Required" if we do not include the above field.

 

My question: from the definition above, what is the correct logic to decide if any individual field is required or not when creating new Objects?

Since September 5th, we have been seeing a large increase in the number of requests that fail to connect to the Salesforce API, due to ECONNREFUSED socket errors. A month later and we're still seeing hundreds of these requests failing each hour.
Our analysis reveals that it's no one particular organisation's subdomain or any particular API endpoints that are failing to respond to our connections.

Our question: Have there been any changes in the last month that would make connecting to the Salesforce API fail so often? Perhaps changes to firewalls, throttling limits, etc?

Any assistance with this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Zapier Integrations Team.

Here is a field extracted from the REST API endpoint (xx.salesforce.com/services/data/v23.0/sobjects/xx/describe):

 

{
   "length":0,
   "name":"ActivityDate",
   "type":"date",
   "defaultValue":null,
   "label":"Due Date Only",
   "updateable":true,
   "precision":0,
   "scale":0,
   "controllerName":null,
   "byteLength":0,
   "unique":false,
   "calculated":false,
   "nameField":false,
   "sortable":true,
   "filterable":true,
   "nillable":true,
   "caseSensitive":false,
   "inlineHelpText":null,
   "writeRequiresMasterRead":false,
   "externalId":false,
   "idLookup":false,
   "createable":true,
   "soapType":"xsd:date",
   "autoNumber":false,
   "restrictedPicklist":false,
   "namePointing":false,
   "custom":false,
   "defaultedOnCreate":false,
   "deprecatedAndHidden":false,
   "htmlFormatted":false,
   "defaultValueFormula":null,
   "calculatedFormula":null,
   "picklistValues":[

   ],
   "dependentPicklist":false,
   "referenceTo":[

   ],
   "relationshipName":null,
   "relationshipOrder":null,
   "digits":0,
   "groupable":true
}

 

When POSTing an Object using the REST API, we are given an error "Field ActivityDate Required" if we do not include the above field.

 

My question: from the definition above, what is the correct logic to decide if any individual field is required or not when creating new Objects?