LaunchDarkly experienced a minor incident on July 31, 2026 affecting OpenTelemetry (Logs, Traces, Metrics), lasting 5h 10m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jul 31, 2026, 05:44 PM UTC
All customers are experiencing missing Observability Traces starting July 30th at 5:16pm PT. We are investigating and will provide updates as they become available. Trace data is not lost and we are working to recover it.
- identified Jul 31, 2026, 05:59 PM UTC
Customers are experiencing missing Observability Traces ingested from July 30th 5:16pm until July 31st 10:59am PT. Observability Logs / Metrics are unaffected. We have identified the issue and are continuing our work to recover the missing Traces data.
- monitoring Jul 31, 2026, 09:58 PM UTC
The issue with Observability Traces has been identified and a fix has been implemented. We have recovered most trace data that was missing from July 30th 5:16pm to July 31st 10:59am PT. We will resolve the incident once we fully complete data recovery (expected to complete by 5pm PT).
- resolved Jul 31, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC
The issue with Observability Traces has been resolved. Missing trace data has been recovered.