Sauce Labs incident

2025-May-14 Service Incident 1

Resolved after 27 minutes, affecting US-West and US-West, on May 14, 2025.

postmortem Jun 13, 2025, 10:44 AM UTC

### **Dates:** Thursday May 13th 2025, 10:26 UTC - Friday May 14th 2025 16:48 UTC ### **What happened:** Video recordings for Android tests intermittently failed in the US-West-1 datacenter. ### **Why it happened:** A service involved in capturing recordings entered a deadlocked state when receiving a specific combination of requests and options. ### **How we fixed it:** We cleared the deadlocked service. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** We are introducing additional monitors and automatic recovery for the deadlocked condition.

Started
May 14, 2025, 04:49 PM UTC
Resolved
May 14, 2025, 05:16 PM UTC
Duration
27m
Detected by Pingoru
May 14, 2025, 04:49 PM UTC

Affected components

US-WestUS-West

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 14, 2025, 04:49 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue where video recordings for Android tests are intermittently missing in our US West Datacenter. The issue began on May 13th at approximately 13:00 CEST.

  2. investigating May 14, 2025, 05:16 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. resolved May 14, 2025, 05:16 PM UTC

    We have identified the root cause and deployed a fix for this issue. This incident is resolved.

  4. postmortem Jun 13, 2025, 10:44 AM UTC

    ### **Dates:** Thursday May 13th 2025, 10:26 UTC - Friday May 14th 2025 16:48 UTC ### **What happened:** Video recordings for Android tests intermittently failed in the US-West-1 datacenter. ### **Why it happened:** A service involved in capturing recordings entered a deadlocked state when receiving a specific combination of requests and options. ### **How we fixed it:** We cleared the deadlocked service. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** We are introducing additional monitors and automatic recovery for the deadlocked condition.

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