# Region ap-northeast-1 outage on Upstash Global

- Provider: [Upstash](https://down.guide/upstash)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Major outage
- lasted 1h
- started 2026-03-06 13:50 UTC
- Tokyo, Japan (ap-northeast-1)
- ap-northeast-1, apac, jp
- id: DWN-834d6b6917
- Official page: https://stspg.io/fstdc8k6z87l

## Updates from Upstash
### 2026-03-06 13:50 UTC: investigating
We are currently investigating this issue.

### 2026-03-06 14:08 UTC: monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

### 2026-03-06 14:49 UTC: resolved
This incident has been resolved.

### 2026-03-09 10:07 UTC: postmortem
On March 6, between approximately 13:44–14:07 UTC, some databases experienced elevated latency and connection errors in the Tokyo \\(ap-northeast-1\\) region.
The issue was caused by a sudden spike in traffic that significantly increased network utilization and connection load on a subset of nodes.
Our team mitigated the incident by scaling up capacity in the region and redistributing load across additional nodes. Service recovered once the additional capacity was brought online.
Resolution
We have increased the number of machines in the Tokyo region to provide additional headroom and reduce the likelihood of similar incidents during traffic spikes.
Next Steps
We are continuing to review capacity safeguards and connection-handling limits to improve resilience against sudden traffic surges.

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