Upstash Redis: Intermittent latency on us-east-1

What to do

• Check whether you use Upstash in us, us-east-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 0m it lasted.

  Anything that failed between 2026-01-23 17:05 UTC and 2026-01-23 15:30 UTC may need a replay.

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Updates from Upstash 1

1. resolvedJan 23, 2026, 3:30 PM UTC

   We identified the cause of elevated latency impacting some databases in us-east-1 region between 15:30–15:35 UTC as a sudden surge of connection attempts that hit OS-level connection limits on our proxy layer. This resulted in slower new connection establishment and increased latency for some requests. Databases were not impacted. We are implementing additional proxy-level metrics and safeguards to detect and manage similar edge cases earlier.

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Corrections

None so far.

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