Sauce Labs incident

2025-July-22 Service Incident

Resolved after 4 hours 29 minutes, affecting US-West and US-West and 1 more, on July 22, 2025.

postmortem Aug 20, 2025, 10:02 AM UTC

### **Dates:** Tuesday July 22d 2025, 07:28 UTC - 15:07 UTC. ### **What happened:** The Sauce Labs dashboard for our US-West-1 datacenter was unavailable intermittently during the incident timeline. ### **Why it happened:** This issue was caused by Cache poisoning via a specific header. ### **How we fixed it:** The header settings were reviewed and fixed in our proxies. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** We have added stricter rules to prevent further cache poisoning attempts.

Started
Jul 22, 2025, 08:50 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 22, 2025, 01:19 PM UTC
Duration
4h 29m
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 22, 2025, 08:50 AM UTC

Affected components

US-WestUS-WestUS-WestUS-WestUS-West

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jul 22, 2025, 08:50 AM UTC

    We are currently seeing intermittent errors accessing the US-West-1 Sauce Labs dashboard. We are investigating.

  2. investigating Jul 22, 2025, 09:53 AM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. monitoring Jul 22, 2025, 12:07 PM UTC

    We have been seeing intermittent errors accessing the US-West-1 Sauce Labs dashboard. We have identified a solution and have deployed a fix for this issue. We are monitoring.

  4. resolved Jul 22, 2025, 01:19 PM UTC

    After taking remedial action, the Sauce Labs dashboard is now stable and available. This incident is resolved.

  5. postmortem Aug 20, 2025, 10:02 AM UTC

    ### **Dates:** Tuesday July 22d 2025, 07:28 UTC - 15:07 UTC. ### **What happened:** The Sauce Labs dashboard for our US-West-1 datacenter was unavailable intermittently during the incident timeline. ### **Why it happened:** This issue was caused by Cache poisoning via a specific header. ### **How we fixed it:** The header settings were reviewed and fixed in our proxies. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** We have added stricter rules to prevent further cache poisoning attempts.

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