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2025-July-22 Service Incident

Partial outage Lasted 4h 29m · started · Sauce Labs's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
US-West, US-West, US-West, US-West, US-West
Regions
us, us-west-1
Down Index
39of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use Sauce Labs US-West, US-West, US-West, US-West and 1 more in us, us-west-1. Check your stack

    Drop a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide to see every provider you depend on.
  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 4h 29m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2025-07-22 08:50 UTC and 2025-07-22 13:19 UTC may need a replay.
  • Subscribe to Sauce Labs's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed

    https://down.guide/feed?provider=saucelabs works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Root cause

Why it happened: This issue was caused by Cache poisoning via a specific header.
Read the postmortem

Updates from Sauce Labs 5

  1. investigating

    We are currently seeing intermittent errors accessing the US-West-1 Sauce Labs dashboard. We are investigating.

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  2. investigating

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

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  3. monitoring

    We have been seeing intermittent errors accessing the US-West-1 Sauce Labs dashboard. We have identified a solution and have deployed a fix for this issue. We are monitoring.

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  4. resolved

    After taking remedial action, the Sauce Labs dashboard is now stable and available. This incident is resolved.

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  5. postmortem

    Dates: Tuesday July 22d 2025, 07:28 UTC - 15:07 UTC. What happened: The Sauce Labs dashboard for our US-West-1 datacenter was unavailable intermittently during the incident timeline. Why it happened: This issue was caused by Cache poisoning via a specific header. How we fixed it: The header settings were reviewed and fixed in our proxies. What we are doing to prevent it from happening again: We have added stricter rules to prevent further cache poisoning attempts.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-73735d1e64

Is Sauce Labs still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2025-07-22 13:19 UTC. For Sauce Labs's live state, see https://down.guide/providers/saucelabs.

How long did it last?

4h 29m, from 2025-07-22 08:50 UTC to 2025-07-22 13:19 UTC, by the times Sauce Labs posted.

What was affected?

Sauce Labs named US-West, US-West, US-West, US-West and 1 more in us, us-west-1.

What caused it?

Sauce Labs wrote: "Why it happened: This issue was caused by Cache poisoning via a specific header." The postmortem: https://stspg.io/c9bp7l1whr83

Where does this come from?

Sauce Labs's official status page, https://status.saucelabs.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.