DataCamp incident

Interactive Databricks exercises failing to start

DataCamp is currently experiencing a major incident affecting In-App Web Learning Experience, which began 22h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 29, 2026, 02:23 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 22h 23m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 29, 2026, 02:23 PM UTC

Affected components

In-App Web Learning Experience

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 28, 2026, 09:03 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are seeing issues with Databricks exercises being slow or failing to start due to high load. We are investigating the issue. Affected components In-App Web Learning Experience (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Aug 28, 2026, 10:05 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have implemented a fix and are monitoring the results. Affected components In-App Web Learning Experience (Degraded performance)

  3. identified Aug 28, 2026, 02:52 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We've identified an issue with the Databricks platform making us unable to reliably provide Databricks learner sessions. We're working with Databricks to get the issue resolved. Affected components In-App Web Learning Experience (Degraded performance)

  4. monitoring Aug 29, 2026, 02:23 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring Databricks has acknowledged the issue, there is currently no impact on learner databricks sessions except an occasional longer load time. We're monitoring the situation until the issue is fully resolved on Databricks their side. Affected components In-App Web Learning Experience (Operational)