Sauce Labs incident
2026-July-16 Resolved Service Incident - Error Reporting (Backtrace)
Resolved after 4 hours 33 minutes, on July 16, 2026.
### **Dates:** Thursday July 16th 2026, 13:03 – 17:33 UTC ### **What happened:** Symbol archives uploaded in multiple parts failed to process. All regions were affected. ### **Why it happened:** Our symbol processing service sent an upload-verification field that our cloud storage provider's API does not accept for multi-part uploads, so those uploads were rejected. A fix for this had already been developed, but it had not yet been included in a released build and the service was not configured to use it. As in the first incident, rejected uploads were retried and accumulated on local disk. ### **How we fixed it:** We deployed a build containing the fix and corrected the service configuration on the affected workers. A large backlog of uploads then processed, which briefly re-filled the disks before draining completely. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** We are releasing the fix formally through our build pipeline and persisting the corrected configuration in our configuration management, so it can't be lost. The disk-utilization alerting added after the first incident also covers the disk-exhaustion pattern common to both.
Update timeline
- resolved Jul 16, 2026, 08:33 PM UTC
Between July 16th 13:03 UTC and July 16th 17:33 UTC, we experienced a service disruption where symbol archives utilizing multi-part upload protocols failed to process. Incident has been resolved and all services are operational.
- postmortem Aug 14, 2026, 04:48 PM UTC
### **Dates:** Thursday July 16th 2026, 13:03 – 17:33 UTC ### **What happened:** Symbol archives uploaded in multiple parts failed to process. All regions were affected. ### **Why it happened:** Our symbol processing service sent an upload-verification field that our cloud storage provider's API does not accept for multi-part uploads, so those uploads were rejected. A fix for this had already been developed, but it had not yet been included in a released build and the service was not configured to use it. As in the first incident, rejected uploads were retried and accumulated on local disk. ### **How we fixed it:** We deployed a build containing the fix and corrected the service configuration on the affected workers. A large backlog of uploads then processed, which briefly re-filled the disks before draining completely. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** We are releasing the fix formally through our build pipeline and persisting the corrected configuration in our configuration management, so it can't be lost. The disk-utilization alerting added after the first incident also covers the disk-exhaustion pattern common to both.
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