Scrapfly incident

Web Scraping API High Error Rate

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Scrapfly experienced a major incident on March 18, 2026 affecting Scraper, lasting 11h 26m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 18, 2026, 02:16 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 19, 2026, 01:42 AM UTC
Duration
11h 26m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 18, 2026, 02:16 PM UTC

Affected components

Scraper

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 18, 2026, 02:16 PM UTC

    Since 12 AM, the API Error rate has increased and we are currently investigating the issue

  2. monitoring Mar 18, 2026, 02:36 PM UTC

    A bug in our scraping infrastructure caused some requests to hang indefinitely when a specific configuration/target website was used, gradually consuming all available resources and leading to degraded performance. The issue has been identified and fixed.

  3. monitoring Mar 18, 2026, 02:37 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  4. resolved Mar 19, 2026, 01:42 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.