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Recent outages & incidents
Past 90 days- 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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- Application Builder
Timeline · 5 updates
- identified · Mar 31, 2026, 12:55 PM UTC
We're experiencing an elevated level of errors in our application builder infrastructure and are currently looking into the issue.
- monitoring · Apr 08, 2026, 07:51 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- monitoring · Apr 08, 2026, 07:51 PM UTC
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- resolved · Apr 21, 2026, 04:30 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
- postmortem · Apr 21, 2026, 05:06 PM UTC
Starting around March 11, some cloud builds began failing intermittently with no such image errors. The failures were non-deterministic and affected all architectures. At peak, some users saw around 50% failure rates. We identified and fixed several bugs in the builder's image garbage collector that caused it to over-count freed disk space and run too aggressively, eventually deleting images that in-progress builds still needed. Fixes were deployed between March 19 and April 14, with build failure rates dropping to near-zero after the final deploy. We're continuing to monitor and working on additional safeguards to prevent the garbage collector from targeting images that active builds depend on.
Latest: Starting around March 11, some cloud builds began failing intermittently with no such image errors. The failures were non-deterministic and affected all architectures. At peak, som…
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- APIApplication BuilderApplication RegistryDashboardDelta Image DownloadsDevice URLsGitCloudlink (VPN)
Timeline · 4 updates
- identified · Mar 24, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC
We're experiencing an elevated level of API errors and are currently looking into the issue.
- monitoring · Mar 24, 2026, 12:58 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- monitoring · Mar 24, 2026, 01:21 PM UTC
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- resolved · Mar 25, 2026, 02:07 PM UTC
We experienced degraded API performance due to an internal configuration change that unintentionally increased system load, resulting in slower response times and reduced request capacity. Our team identified the issue and rolled back the change to restore stability. A root cause fix has been implemented and deployed aswell. The system has now fully recovered, and services are operating normally.
Latest: We experienced degraded API performance due to an internal configuration change that unintentionally increased system load, resulting in slower response times and reduced request c…
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- Application Builder
Timeline · 4 updates
- investigating · Mar 23, 2026, 04:57 PM UTC
We are seeing several builds intermitently failing with 404 errors - No such image during builds and are investigating.
- monitoring · Mar 23, 2026, 06:55 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved · Mar 25, 2026, 01:18 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
- postmortem · Mar 25, 2026, 03:38 PM UTC
Between March 11 and March 25, some cloud builds experienced intermittent failures with "no such image" errors. The issue was non-deterministic and did not affect all builds. We've identified a likely contributing factor and deployed mitigations that have stabilized build reliability. We're continuing to investigate the underlying cause to prevent recurrence. If you experienced build failures during this window, re-running your build should succeed. We appreciate your patience while we worked through this, and we apologize for the disruption.
Latest: Between March 11 and March 25, some cloud builds experienced intermittent failures with "no such image" errors. The issue was non-deterministic and did not affect all builds. We've…
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- Elevated API Errors ResolvedStarted May 05, 2026, 06:12 PM UTC · Resolved May 05, 2026, 09:03 PM UTC · 2h 51m
- Started Mar 31, 2026, 12:55 PM UTC · Resolved Apr 21, 2026, 04:30 PM UTC · 21d 3h
- Elevated API Errors ResolvedStarted Mar 24, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC · Resolved Mar 25, 2026, 02:07 PM UTC · 1d 1h
- Builder Degraded performance ResolvedStarted Mar 23, 2026, 04:57 PM UTC · Resolved Mar 25, 2026, 01:18 PM UTC · 1d 20h