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2026-September-30 Service Incident

Partial outage Lasted 1h 14m · started · Sauce Labs's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Regions
eu, eu-central-1
Down Index
36of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use Sauce Labs in eu, eu-central-1. 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 14m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-09-30 10:04 UTC and 2026-09-30 11:18 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from Sauce Labs 3

  1. investigating

    We are currently seeing elevated error rates for real device tests in EU-Central-1 data center. We are investigating.

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  2. resolved

    Real Device test error rates have returned to normal in the EU-Central-1 data center. All services are fully operational.

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  3. postmortem

    ### **Dates:** Wednesday, September 30th 2026, 09:04 UTC - 10:49 UTC. ### **What happened:** Real Device Automated Tests experienced failure to start in the EU Central data center, with error rates reaching up to 25%. ### **Why it happened:** A deployment led to increased cache misses and elevated load on the underlying infrastructure. ### **How we fixed it:** Service was restored by rolling back to a previous version. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** Alternative caching strategies are being considered to increase effectiveness of the cache.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-c0a6f336c9

Is Sauce Labs still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-09-30 11:18 UTC. For Sauce Labs's live state, see https://down.guide/saucelabs.

How long did it last?

1h 14m, from 2026-09-30 10:04 UTC to 2026-09-30 11:18 UTC, by the times Sauce Labs posted.

What was affected?

Sauce Labs named in eu, eu-central-1.

What caused it?

Sauce Labs hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

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.