Stack Overflow incident

Cooling Incident – Frankfurt Data Centre

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Stack Overflow experienced a minor incident on August 16, 2026, lasting 1d. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 16, 2026, 05:09 AM UTC
Resolved
Aug 17, 2026, 05:55 AM UTC
Duration
1d
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 16, 2026, 05:09 AM UTC

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Aug 15, 2026, 03:11 AM UTC

    Incident: Due to problems with cooling in the Franktfurt DC, kvmhosts are being temporarily shut down to protect hardware. Frankfurt based websites may be unavailable. This will affect sites hosted on kvmhost135, kvmhost136, and kvmhost137.