Chef Outage History

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Chef had 4 outages in the last 2 years totaling 137h 30m of downtime — averaging 0.2 incidents per month.

There were 4 Chef outages since May 22, 2025 totaling 137h 30m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.chef.io

Minor February 17, 2026

CDN Performance

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 17, 2026, 06:08 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 18, 2026, 05:41 PM UTC
Duration
23h 32m
Affected: Fastly API
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Feb 17, 2026, 06:08 PM UTC

    There are currently reports coming in from users about degraded performance with our CDN in some regions. Users may encounter timeouts when downloading binaries using the Chef download API endpoints. Current Actions: We are actively working with Fastly to identify the root cause and resolve this issue. We will provide updates as more information becomes available.

  2. resolved Feb 18, 2026, 05:41 PM UTC

    The status has been resolved.

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Notice November 24, 2025

Issue with our download enpodints

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 24, 2025, 01:24 PM UTC
Resolved
Nov 24, 2025, 01:24 PM UTC
Duration
Affected: downloads.chef.iopackages.chef.ioomnitruck.chef.ioOmnitruck wrapper - CommercialOmnitruck wrapper - TrialOmnitruck wrapper - Community
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Nov 24, 2025, 01:24 PM UTC

    After our maintenance window today, we experienced issues with our download endpoint due to an underlying infrastructure problem. The team has resolved the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

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Major May 22, 2025

Issue with habitat builder database

Detected by Pingoru
May 22, 2025, 06:22 PM UTC
Resolved
May 23, 2025, 03:44 AM UTC
Duration
9h 21m
Affected: Habitat Builder APIHabitat Builder Web Console
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating May 22, 2025, 06:22 PM UTC

    We have an isolated incident with our habitat database and we are investigating the issue. We will update when we are back online. Please check our Slack channel for updates. https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/CAW6DQBV2

  2. resolved May 23, 2025, 03:44 AM UTC

    Issue is resolved, all Habitat service is functional now.

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