Sauce Labs incident

2026-June-24 Resolved Service Incident

Resolved after 6 hours 3 minutes, on June 24, 2026.

postmortem Jul 22, 2026, 08:49 PM UTC

### **Dates:** Wednesday, June 24th 2026, 09:42 UTC - 15:45 UTC. ### **What happened:** Real Device test sessions using Appium and Access API experienced increased error rates in the US East, US West, and EU data centers. Sessions were timing out after approximately 90 seconds or becoming stuck in the "Connecting" state, preventing them from being closed. ### **Why it happened:** A product defect was introduced, causing Real Device test sessions to fail to start and preventing active sessions from being closed. ### **How we fixed it:** Rollback to a stable version. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** Improve monitoring & alerting and enhance post deployment validation.

Started
Jun 24, 2026, 09:42 AM UTC
Resolved
Jun 24, 2026, 03:45 PM UTC
Duration
6h 3m
Detected by Pingoru
Jun 24, 2026, 09:42 AM UTC

Update timeline

  1. resolved Jun 24, 2026, 04:39 PM UTC

    On June 24th between 08:28 UTC and 15:32 UTC, we experienced Real Device test session failures impacting Appium and Access API in the US East, US West and EU data centers. This issue has been resolved. All services are fully operational.

  2. postmortem Jul 22, 2026, 08:49 PM UTC

    ### **Dates:** Wednesday, June 24th 2026, 09:42 UTC - 15:45 UTC. ### **What happened:** Real Device test sessions using Appium and Access API experienced increased error rates in the US East, US West, and EU data centers. Sessions were timing out after approximately 90 seconds or becoming stuck in the "Connecting" state, preventing them from being closed. ### **Why it happened:** A product defect was introduced, causing Real Device test sessions to fail to start and preventing active sessions from being closed. ### **How we fixed it:** Rollback to a stable version. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** Improve monitoring & alerting and enhance post deployment validation.

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