Affected components
Update timeline
- 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.
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