Opal Security Outage History

Type: Maintenance Duration: 2 hours and 16 minutes Affected Components: App, API, Slack Integration Apr 8, 02:00:00 GMT+0 - Identified - We will be scheduling a maintenance window for our cloud infrastructure at 7:00 PM PDT this evening to finish resolving the incident from earlier today. During this window, there may be a brief period of downtime (a few minutes) affecting the Web UI, API, and Slack integration. There will be no impact to data integrity, access expirations, or other scheduled tasks. We will update this page when we begin maintenance, and as we make progress on the fix. Apr 8, 02:00:01 GMT+0 - Identified - Maintenance is now in progress Apr 8, 04:16:15 GMT+0 - Completed - Maintenance has completed successfully.

Type: Incident Duration: 2 hours and 40 minutes Affected Components: App, API, Slack Integration Apr 7, 17:58:26 GMT+0 - Investigating - All Opal services are currently degraded. We are actively investigating the issue and appreciate your patience. Apr 7, 18:47:29 GMT+0 - Monitoring - We have implemented a fix and are monitoring the situation. Apr 7, 19:18:47 GMT+0 - Investigating - We have now identified gateway timeouts affecting app.opal.dev. We are investigating. Apr 7, 19:52:02 GMT+0 - Monitoring - We have implemented a fix and are closely monitoring for healthy network traffic. Apr 7, 20:38:33 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Apr 13, 23:37:51 GMT+0 - Postmortem - Our team has met internally to review the incident on April 7th 2026, where Opal's cloud platform was unavailable. We've prepared a postmortem for this incident, including a detailed timeline, root cause analysis, and plan for preventing similar issues in the future. You can find the public postmortem for this incident here - [\[LINK\]](https://opal-security.notion.site/EXTERNAL-2026-04-07-Node-Exhaustion-Issues-340b8b94ee958029964bd98f3fd62c83). We apologize for the disruption this may have caused and appreciate your patience while our team worked to resolve this issue.