LaunchDarkly incident
Delays in Guarded Rollouts, Progressive Rollouts, Release Pipelines, and Experimentation
LaunchDarkly experienced a minor incident on October 3, 2026 affecting Experiment management and Rollout management and 1 more component, lasting 1h 36m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Oct 03, 2026, 07:29 AM UTC
Some automatic changes in LaunchDarkly are being applied later than expected. This affects stage transitions for guarded and progressive rollouts, release pipeline phase progression, and multi-armed bandit traffic reallocations. Delays began at approximately 4:15 PM PT on October 2 2026. In-progress rollouts and experiments remain at their current stage and traffic allocation; nothing has been advanced, reverted, or stopped incorrectly. No data is lost. Delayed changes remain queued and will take effect once processing catches up.
- monitoring Oct 03, 2026, 08:51 AM UTC
The backlog of delayed changes has been fully processed as of 1:45 AM PT on October 3. All changes that were delayed during the incident have been applied. No data was lost. We are continuing to monitor.
- resolved Oct 03, 2026, 09:06 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.