# Elevated errors on AuthKit authentication endpoints

- Provider: [WorkOS](https://down.guide/workos)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Degraded
- lasted 0m
- started 2026-08-19 18:14 UTC
- id: DWN-dee2586ae0
- Official page: https://stspg.io/f6qft677v2kv

## Updates from WorkOS
### 2026-08-19 00:00 UTC: resolved
On August 18 from 23:59 to 00:03 UTC (August 19), a subset of API requests (primarily AuthKit authentication endpoints) returned HTTP 500 errors. Automatic maintenance of a large, seldom-used internal index caused brief write-ahead-log contention on a primary database that exhausted connection capacity; service recovered automatically within four minutes. We identified the root cause and removed the index from production at 03:53 UTC on August 19 to prevent recurrence.

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