Errors in creating workspaces

Update timeline

1. investigating Mar 09, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

   Status: Investigating We’re investigating degraded performance affecting Linear workspace creation in the US region. Affected components US Region – Linear application (Degraded performance)

2. identified Mar 09, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

   Status: Identified We have identified the issue with workspace creation. The team is actively working to mitigate the problem. Affected components US Region – Linear application (Partial outage)

3. identified Mar 09, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC

   Status: Identified We've identified a bug causing workspace creation requests to be incorrectly rate limited. The rate limit was being triggered by error responses, causing all new workspace creation attempts to fail for all customers. We're manually removing the rate limit keys to unblock affected customers. Affected components US Region – Linear application (Partial outage)

4. monitoring Mar 09, 2026, 11:41 PM UTC

   Status: Monitoring Issue with creating workspaces have been mitigated. Ongoing monitoring continues to ensure all users can create new workspaces again. Affected components US Region – Linear application (Degraded performance)

5. resolved Mar 09, 2026, 11:48 PM UTC

   Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved and system performance has returned to normal. Thank you for your patience while we worked to resolve the issue. Affected components US Region – Linear application (Operational)