AssemblyAI incident

Some Streaming Sessions are Failing to be Established

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

AssemblyAI experienced a minor incident on September 29, 2025 affecting Streaming API, lasting 11h 41m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Sep 29, 2025, 01:49 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 30, 2025, 01:31 AM UTC
Duration
11h 41m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 29, 2025, 01:49 PM UTC

Affected components

Streaming API

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 29, 2025, 01:49 PM UTC

    Between 1:30p and 1:40p GMT there were an increased number of new streaming sessions that were failing to be established. Customers would have received the error message "received 3005 (registered) Session Cancelled: An error occurred; ".

  2. investigating Sep 29, 2025, 01:50 PM UTC

    The Streaming API has now returned to full functionality. Our team is still investigating the root cause of this issue.

  3. investigating Sep 29, 2025, 03:41 PM UTC

    Our team is still investigating the cause of the elevated errors, but the Streaming API is still continuing to function normally.

  4. monitoring Sep 29, 2025, 07:32 PM UTC

    We have continued to see stable performance throughout the day. The Streaming API is operating normally and we are monitoring the effects of recent changes to ensure continued service stability. Our team continues working to determine the root cause of the earlier connection failures.

  5. resolved Sep 30, 2025, 01:31 AM UTC

    We have continued to see good performance since rolling back the update that was identified to be the cause of this issue, so we are marking this issue as resolved.