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Recent outages & incidents
Past 90 days- Device URLs
Timeline · 4 updates
- investigating · Jul 27, 2026, 04:49 PM UTC
We're currently seeing some Gateway error on public device url. Investigation ongoing.
- investigating · Jul 27, 2026, 05:06 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- monitoring · Jul 27, 2026, 05:06 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved · Jul 27, 2026, 06:41 PM UTC
Unusual load on the proxy, caused some degraded performances on the device URL. Everything is now working properly.
Latest: Unusual load on the proxy, caused some degraded performances on the device URL. Everything is now working properly.
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- API
Timeline · 4 updates
- identified · Jul 06, 2026, 01:47 PM UTC
We're experiencing an elevated level of API errors and are currently looking into the issue.
- monitoring · Jul 06, 2026, 01:53 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved · Jul 06, 2026, 02:37 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
- postmortem · Jul 09, 2026, 09:08 PM UTC
A routine version upgrade to a backend cache changed how the API handled its request queues. Under unusually heavy request load, those queues filled up and the API started dropping traffic, returning timeouts and errors. Over the course of the incident, affected users saw elevated API error rates that intermittently disrupted dashboard logins, API access, and device connectivity. We mitigated it by rate-limiting the abnormal traffic at our edge and rolling the cache back to the previous version, which restored normal queue behaviour and recovered the platform. To avoid a repeat, we're improving rate limiting so a single heavy consumer can't degrade service for others, and exploring autoscaling and load testing so infrastructure changes are validated under realistic load before they reach production.
Latest: A routine version upgrade to a backend cache changed how the API handled its request queues. Under unusually heavy request load, those queues filled up and the API started dropping…
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- API
Timeline · 8 updates
- investigating · Jul 02, 2026, 02:03 PM UTC
We're experiencing an elevated level of API errors and are currently looking into the issue.
- identified · Jul 02, 2026, 02:25 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- identified · Jul 02, 2026, 08:42 PM UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- monitoring · Jul 02, 2026, 10:42 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- identified · Jul 07, 2026, 04:18 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- identified · Jul 07, 2026, 04:19 PM UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- monitoring · Jul 07, 2026, 05:37 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved · Jul 09, 2026, 06:24 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Latest: This incident has been resolved.
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- APIApplication BuilderDelta Image Downloads
Timeline · 5 updates
- investigating · May 05, 2026, 06:12 PM UTC
We're experiencing an elevated level of API errors and are currently looking into the issue.
- identified · May 05, 2026, 06:19 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- monitoring · May 05, 2026, 06:43 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved · May 05, 2026, 09:03 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
- postmortem · May 05, 2026, 09:18 PM UTC
A vulnerability mitigation update required replacing compute cluster nodes, which, when applied, rolled back due to a timeout. This caused some workloads \(API, delta, builder\) to become temporarily unavailable and triggering some undesired secondary effects, including ungracefully terminating a few long lived instances servicing VPN connections. While the rest of the services came back reasonably quickly within a minute or so, it too around one and a quarter hours to re-establish VPN tunnels. A scheduled maintenance will be posted later to perform this update during a planned outage window.
Latest: A vulnerability mitigation update required replacing compute cluster nodes, which, when applied, rolled back due to a timeout. This caused some workloads \(API, delta, builder\) to…
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- Elevated Error on Public Device Url ResolvedStarted Jul 27, 2026, 04:49 PM UTC · Resolved Jul 27, 2026, 06:41 PM UTC · 1h 52m
- Elevated API Errors ResolvedStarted Jul 06, 2026, 01:47 PM UTC · Resolved Jul 06, 2026, 02:37 PM UTC · 50m
- Elevated API Errors ResolvedStarted Jul 02, 2026, 02:03 PM UTC · Resolved Jul 09, 2026, 06:24 PM UTC · 7d 4h
- Elevated API Errors ResolvedStarted May 05, 2026, 06:12 PM UTC · Resolved May 05, 2026, 09:03 PM UTC · 2h 51m