Cisco AI Defense incident
Inspect API degraded in US East 1 region
Cisco AI Defense experienced a major incident on May 29, 2026 affecting API, lasting 1h 20m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
API
Update timeline
- investigating May 29, 2026, 09:17 AM UTC
We are observing high error rates in Inspect API degraded in US West 2 region. Investigation is in progress.
- identified May 29, 2026, 10:10 AM UTC
We identified the issue and mitigation is in progress
- identified May 29, 2026, 10:22 AM UTC
The problem is mitigated and we are monitoring the system
- monitoring May 29, 2026, 10:22 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved May 29, 2026, 10:37 AM UTC
Issue resolved. The issue was caused by partially failed node which was failing to process the requests. This node is isolated for further root cause analysis. A new workload is up and running in a new node and serving the traffic.