Azure DevOps incident

Availability Degradation - SQL outage

Resolved after 2 hours 5 minutes, affecting Boards (United States) and Repos (United States) and 1 more, on August 17, 2026.

resolved Aug 17, 2026, 06:15 PM UTC

The issue is now fully mitigated. Planned maintenance caused a database to become unresponsive, and SQL engineers performed a failover to restore. Our engineers will be investigating this further to learn from and reduce the risk of potential recurrences. We apologize for the impact this had on our customers.

Started
Aug 17, 2026, 04:07 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 17, 2026, 06:12 PM UTC
Duration
2h 5m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 17, 2026, 04:07 PM UTC

Affected components

Boards (United States)Repos (United States)Pipelines (United States)Test Plans (United States)

Update timeline

  1. identified Aug 17, 2026, 04:07 PM UTC

    Our engineers are currently investigating an event impacting Azure DevOps. The event is being triaged and we will post an update as soon as we know more.

  2. resolved Aug 17, 2026, 06:15 PM UTC

    The issue is now fully mitigated. Planned maintenance caused a database to become unresponsive, and SQL engineers performed a failover to restore. Our engineers will be investigating this further to learn from and reduce the risk of potential recurrences. We apologize for the impact this had on our customers.

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