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2026-October-28 Service Incident

Partial outage Lasted 1h 39m · started · Sauce Labs's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
US-West
Regions
us, us-west-1, us-west4
Down Index
40of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use Sauce Labs US-West in us, us-west-1, us-west4. Check your stack

    Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.
  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 1h 39m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-10-28 12:51 UTC and 2026-10-28 14:29 UTC may need a replay.
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Root cause

The root cause of the elevated error rates for Real Device tests in the US-West-1 data center has been identified.

Category: Data center or power

Read the postmortem

Updates from Sauce Labs 4

  1. investigating

    We are currently seeing elevated error rates for iOS and Android real device tests in US-West-1 data center. We are currently investigating.

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  2. investigating

    The root cause of the elevated error rates for Real Device tests in the US-West-1 data center has been identified. Remediation has been applied, and we are actively monitoring the situation.

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  3. resolved

    After taking remedial action, Real Device test error rates have returned to normal in the US-West-1 data center. All services are fully operational.

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  4. postmortem

    ### **Dates:** Wednesday October 28 2026, 11:10 UTC - 13:57 UTC. ### **What happened:** About  ¼ of our RDC customers in US-WEST4  experienced slowness obtaining artifacts. ### **Why it happened:** A network provider had a failure on its infrastructure. ### **How we fixed it:** The Network Team moved traffic to a different network path. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** We are deploying an additional observability stack to follow on network vendors changes.

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Corrections

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Questions about DWN-9fd1e80221

Is Sauce Labs still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-10-28 14:29 UTC. For Sauce Labs's live state, see https://down.guide/saucelabs.

How long did it last?

1h 39m, from 2026-10-28 12:51 UTC to 2026-10-28 14:29 UTC, by the times Sauce Labs posted.

What was affected?

Sauce Labs named US-West in us, us-west-1, us-west4.

What caused it?

Data center or power. Sauce Labs wrote: "The root cause of the elevated error rates for Real Device tests in the US-West-1 data center has been identified." The postmortem: https://stspg.io/d896fbhc2n8r

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.