Balena experienced a minor incident on November 12, 2025 affecting Application Builder, lasting 10h 45m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Nov 12, 2025, 09:13 AM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue.
- identified Nov 12, 2025, 03:01 PM UTC
We have observed packet loss in the connections to our builder workers. We are working with our upstream provider to fix the issue. We have also provisioned a few replacement workers in an alternative location while we mitigate the problem.
- monitoring Nov 12, 2025, 05:14 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Nov 12, 2025, 07:58 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
- postmortem Nov 12, 2025, 08:08 PM UTC
### Summary On November 12, 2025, we experienced an incident causing increased build failures. This was traced to a significant network issue upstream of our hosting provider, which was outside their direct control. Build success rates returned to normal as of 17:15 UTC, and we formally closed the incident at 20:00 UTC after a period of extended monitoring. ### What Happened A network issue between upstream service providers resulted in severe packet loss. This network degradation disrupted connections to our remote builder workers, causing an increase in builds failing with connection timeout errors \(e.g., `ETIMEDOUT`\). ### Our Response & Mitigation * While the upstream network issue was being addressed, we brought additional builder workers online in unaffected regions to successfully route and process builds. * We were in communication with our hosting provider, who was monitoring the external network problem. ### Resolution * **Recovery \(17:15 UTC\):** The upstream network provider resolved the issue, and we observed build failure rates and connection quality return to normal levels. * **Incident Closed \(20:00 UTC\):** After an extended period of monitoring to ensure all systems remained stable, we formally closed the incident. We apologize for the disruption this caused.