Sauce Labs incident

2026-April-23 Resolved Service Incident

Resolved after 22 hours 55 minutes, on April 24, 2026.

postmortem May 13, 2026, 03:05 PM UTC

### **Dates:** Thursday, April 23rd 2026, 22:43 UTC - Friday, April 24th 2026, 15:29 UTC ### **What happened:** Video assets were missing for virtual iOS simulator tests on ARM and macOS ARM desktop tests in the US-West and EU data centers. ### **Why it happened:** A product defect was introduced resulting in a screen capture failure. ### **How we fixed it:** We performed a rollback to a stable version. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** We are improving monitoring & alerting to enhance our post deployment validation.

Started
Apr 24, 2026, 04:33 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 25, 2026, 03:29 PM UTC
Duration
22h 55m
Detected by Pingoru
Apr 24, 2026, 04:33 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. resolved Apr 24, 2026, 04:33 PM UTC

    Between April 23rd 22:44 and April 24th 15:25 UTC, there was a technical issue that affected video recordings for tests running on macOS 15 and iOS within our EU and US-West Data Center. We identified the issue and deployed a fix. All systems are now fully operational.

  2. postmortem May 13, 2026, 03:05 PM UTC

    ### **Dates:** Thursday, April 23rd 2026, 22:43 UTC - Friday, April 24th 2026, 15:29 UTC ### **What happened:** Video assets were missing for virtual iOS simulator tests on ARM and macOS ARM desktop tests in the US-West and EU data centers. ### **Why it happened:** A product defect was introduced resulting in a screen capture failure. ### **How we fixed it:** We performed a rollback to a stable version. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** We are improving monitoring & alerting to enhance our post deployment validation.

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