Modal incident

Volume degradation

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Modal experienced a minor incident on January 21, 2026 affecting Storage (Volumes), lasting 3h 40m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jan 21, 2026, 02:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 21, 2026, 05:40 AM UTC
Duration
3h 40m
Detected by Pingoru
Jan 21, 2026, 02:00 AM UTC

Affected components

Storage (Volumes)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jan 21, 2026, 02:00 AM UTC

    Our storage backend began bandwidth throttling us, resulting in some errors / degraded Modal Volume performance.

  2. investigating Jan 21, 2026, 05:40 AM UTC

    We mitigated and are no longer getting bandwidth throttled.