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Real-time Kernel status, recent outages, and incident history: pulled directly from Kernel's official status page at status.kernel.sh every 5 minutes. Pingoru tracks 3 Kernel services and has captured 5 incidents in the last 90 days (97.41% uptime). Get email, Slack, Discord, or webhook alerts the moment Kernel reports a new incident, free for 3 monitors, no credit card.
Recent outages & incidents
Past 90 days- Browsers
Timeline · 2 updates
- identified · Oct 20, 2026, 07:30 AM UTC
Status: Identified Our captcha solver is not working. The issue has been identified and we are working on triage. Affected components Browsers (Degraded performance)
- resolved · Oct 20, 2026, 07:56 AM UTC
Status: Resolved This was resolved, apologies for the disruption. Affected components Browsers (Operational)
Latest: Status: Resolved This was resolved, apologies for the disruption. Affected components Browsers (Operational)
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- AppsBrowsers
Timeline · 3 updates
- identified · Oct 19, 2026, 07:34 PM UTC
Status: Identified Between 12:10 and 12:23 PT (19:10–19:23 UTC), a degradation caused most API requests to get, list, update, or delete browsers to fail with 500 errors. Some browser create requests also failed, and browsers that were already running may have had network or proxy connection problems during this window. We rolled back the deploy and error rates returned to normal at 12:23 PT. We're monitoring to confirm everything stays stable. If a browser created during this window is misbehaving, delete it and create a new one. Affected components Browsers (Full outage) Apps (Full outage)
- monitoring · Oct 19, 2026, 07:36 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring As of 12:23pm PT, a fix has been deployed and we are monitoring. Affected components Apps (Full outage) Browsers (Full outage)
- resolved · Oct 19, 2026, 07:38 PM UTC
Status: Resolved This incident is resolved. The API is healthy again. Affected components Apps (Operational) Browsers (Operational)
Latest: Status: Resolved This incident is resolved. The API is healthy again. Affected components Apps (Operational) Browsers (Operational)
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- Browsers
Timeline · 2 updates
- monitoring · Oct 01, 2026, 10:18 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring A browser image released at 14:03 UTC on October 1 causes window.open: http://window.open popups to remain on about:blank while the opening page freezes. Sessions controlled through live view, the computer API, Selenium, or raw CDP are affected. Playwright and Puppeteer sessions are not affected. The cause has been identified and a corrected image is being deployed. We expect it to reach production within the hour. Sessions created after the deployment completes will not be affected. Workaround: if a session is frozen, run the following command against it to resume the popup and the original page. kernel browsers playwright execute 'return 1' We will post another update once the fix is live. Affected components Browsers (Partial outage)
- resolved · Oct 01, 2026, 11:29 PM UTC
Status: Resolved The fix has been deployed. Affected components Browsers (Operational)
Latest: Status: Resolved The fix has been deployed. Affected components Browsers (Operational)
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- AppsBrowsers
Timeline · 3 updates
- identified · Sep 29, 2026, 03:49 AM UTC
Status: Identified We have been sporadic errors on residential and mobile proxy creation since ~19:00 UTC today. We have traced this to a downstream vendor and are working with them. Existing proxies are healthy and our recommendation is to re-use existing proxies. We will provide updates as we learn more. Affected components Apps (Degraded performance) Browsers (Degraded performance)
- identified · Sep 29, 2026, 04:11 AM UTC
Status: Identified The error is coming from increased response latency in our downstream provider. Until this is resolved, we recommend increasing response timeouts. If you are using our SDK, recommended example snippet: import Kernel from '@onkernel/sdk'; // client-wide: applies to every request const client = new Kernel({ timeout: 5 * 60 * 1000, // 5 minutes }); // or per request (options are the last argument) const browser = await client.browsers.create( { stealth: true }, { timeout: 5 * 60 * 1000 }, ); Affected components Apps (Degraded performance) Browsers (Degraded performance)
- resolved · Sep 29, 2026, 01:25 PM UTC
Status: Resolved Elevated latency affecting residential and mobile proxy creation has subsided, and proxy creation is back to normal. Existing proxy traffic and ISP and datacenter proxy creation were not affected. We’re continuing to monitor. Affected components Apps (Operational) Browsers (Operational)
Latest: Status: Resolved Elevated latency affecting residential and mobile proxy creation has subsided, and proxy creation is back to normal. Existing proxy traffic and ISP and datacenter …
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- Browsers
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating · Sep 10, 2026, 02:01 PM UTC
Status: Investigating There are issues with connecting to some browser instances Affected components Browsers (Partial outage)
- monitoring · Sep 10, 2026, 02:10 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring The issue has stabilized and we are monitoring performance Affected components Browsers (Partial outage)
- resolved · Sep 10, 2026, 02:55 PM UTC
Status: Resolved Services are operating normally Affected components Browsers (Operational)
Latest: Status: Resolved Services are operating normally Affected components Browsers (Operational)
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- Started Oct 20, 2026, 07:30 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 20, 2026, 07:56 AM UTC · 26m
- Started Oct 19, 2026, 07:34 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 19, 2026, 07:38 PM UTC · 3m
- Started Oct 01, 2026, 10:18 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 01, 2026, 11:29 PM UTC · 1h 10m
- Started Sep 29, 2026, 03:49 AM UTC · Resolved Sep 29, 2026, 01:25 PM UTC · 9h 36m
- Browser connection failures ResolvedStarted Sep 10, 2026, 02:01 PM UTC · Resolved Sep 10, 2026, 02:55 PM UTC · 54m