Meteor incident

Connectivity issues affecting Galaxy and hosted applications

Meteor is currently experiencing a minor incident affecting Galaxy US infrastructure and Galaxy management interface and 1 more component, which began 8h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
Oct 15, 2026, 05:01 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 7h 38m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 15, 2026, 05:01 PM UTC

Affected components

Galaxy US infrastructureGalaxy management interfaceGalaxy EU InfrastructureGalaxy AP Infrastructure

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 15, 2026, 05:01 PM UTC

    Some customers experienced a brief interruption accessing Galaxy and their hosted applications. We will provide updates here as more information becomes available.

  2. monitoring Oct 15, 2026, 07:56 PM UTC

    We've identified slowness in some of our proxies that caused intermittent request timeouts for a subset of Galaxy customers and organizations. We've applied a mitigation and are monitoring its effectiveness. Our infrastructure monitoring shows improved stability, while we're checking reports of continued disruption from affected customers. We'll share another update as we confirm the impact of the mitigation.

  3. identified Oct 15, 2026, 09:15 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  4. monitoring Oct 15, 2026, 09:24 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  5. monitoring Oct 15, 2026, 09:25 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.