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Ably

Infrastructure. Source: Ably status page.

Incidents, last 90 days
6
Median duration
17m
p95 duration
1h 24m
Naming an upstream provider
0%
With a postmortem on the status page
16%

What failed, last 90 days

The text does not say enough to tell2
A zone, region or data center became unavailable2
A configuration change caused the failure1
Traffic surge or denial-of-service attack1

Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 from each incident's updates. See the methodology.

Incidents per month

All recorded incidents

MongoDB ingress rule issues none 2026-10-16 13:00 UTC 0m

Affected: Integrations

Failure mode: A configuration change caused the failure. Root cause: A configuration change. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    Between 10:35 and 12:20 UTC today, MongoDB ingress rules may have experienced errors publishing changestream events. If you were affected by this, please contact support@ably.com.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Elevated API Errors major 2026-10-01 15:36 UTC 27m

Failure mode: Traffic surge or denial-of-service attack. Root cause: An external attack. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with high confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We're experiencing an elevated level of API errors and are currently looking into the issue.

  2. resolved

    Between 15:30 UTC to 15:36 UTC there were elevated errors affecting token requests in all regions resulting in 503 error responses.

  3. postmortem

    On October 1, a distributed denial-of-service \(DDoS\) attack caused elevated token-request errors across all Ably Realtime regions for approximately six minutes and intermittent unavailability of [ably.com](http://ably.com). We restored token-request service by increasing...

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Ably documentation pages - ably.com/docs major 2026-09-07 11:25 UTC 7m

Affected: Ably Website

Failure mode: The text does not say enough to tell. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    Customers may be experiencing issues viewing documentation pages on our website ably.com/docs. Our realtime services are not affected by this issue at this time.

  2. monitoring

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Elevated API Errors - LiveObjects minor 2026-08-28 12:08 UTC 1h 24m

Affected: Ably Platform, Europe (Frankfurt), US East (Ohio)

Failure mode: The text does not say enough to tell. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We're experiencing an elevated level of API errors in LiveObjects and are currently looking into the issue.

  2. identified

    We're mitigating the impact while investigating the root cause.

  3. identified

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  4. monitoring

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  5. monitoring

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  6. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Elevated Errors in ap-southeast-1 minor 2026-08-20 19:29 UTC 55m

Affected: Asia-Pacific (Singapore)

Failure mode: A zone, region or data center became unavailable. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We're experiencing an elevated level of errors in ap-southeast-1 and are currently looking into the issue.

  2. identified

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. identified

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. Error rates have decreased to normal levels and the service is currently fully operational.

  4. monitoring

    A fix has been implemented and we our monitoring the result. Error rates have decreased to normal levels and the service is currently fully operational.

  5. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Elevated Error Rate in ap-southeast-1 major 2026-08-20 19:07 UTC 3m

Affected: Asia-Pacific (Singapore)

Failure mode: A zone, region or data center became unavailable. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We're experiencing an elevated level of errors in the ap-southeast-1 region and are currently looking into the issue.

  2. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Elevated realtime publish error rate in ap-southeast-1 minor 2026-02-17 10:19 UTC 12m

Affected: Asia-Pacific (Singapore)

Failure mode: A zone, region or data center became unavailable. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We're experiencing an elevated level of realtime publish errors in ap-southeast-1 and are currently looking into the issue.

  2. identified

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. monitoring

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Elevated Attach Error Rate in eu-west-1 major 2026-02-14 05:57 UTC 8m

Affected: Europe (Ireland)

Failure mode: A zone, region or data center became unavailable. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We're experiencing an elevated level of attachment errors in eu-west-1 and are currently looking into the issue.

  2. identified

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. monitoring

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved

    This incident has now been resolved.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

SMS based 2FA is currently unavailable minor 2026-01-21 18:11 UTC 1h 41m

Affected: Ably Website

Failure mode: Login, tokens, certificates or credentials failed. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We are currently investigating an issue impacting SMS based 2FA login to the Ably website ably.com.

  2. identified

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. monitoring

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Push delivery errors for messages published in ap-southeast-2 none 2025-12-11 18:36 UTC 24m

Failure mode: A zone, region or data center became unavailable. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    Increased level of push delivery errors for messages published in ap-southeast-2 only since 15:28 UTC, we're remediating

  2. identified

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Ably website, customer dashboard & Control API issues critical 2025-12-05 08:59 UTC 19m

Affected: Ably Website

Failure mode: Network, DNS, routing or connectivity failure. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    Customers may be experiencing connectivity issues affecting our website (ably.com), customer dashboards, the Control API (control.ably.net), the Ably blog and CMS. Our realtime services are not affected by this issue at this time.

  2. monitoring

    The service is recovering, we are continuing to monitor.

  3. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

High pusher, pubnub and mqtt adaptor error rate minor 2025-11-25 11:38 UTC 33m

Affected: Asia-Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Northern California)

Failure mode: The text does not say enough to tell. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. monitoring

    There was a high error rate with pusher, pubnub, and mqtt protocol adaptors in one region for a duration of 11 minutes from 11:25 UTC in the eu-west-1 (Ireland) region. This has now been resolved. No other region was affected

  2. monitoring

    There is a high error rate for all translator protocol adaptors globally (pusher, pubnub and mqtt). We have identified the issue and are working on a fix.

  3. monitoring

    We have resolved the issue and the error rate has now dropped across all affected regions. We are continuing to monitor.

  4. resolved

    The incident is now resolved. The elevated protocol adaptor error rate affected EU regions for 36 minutes from 11.25am-12.01pm UTC, for 15 minutes in US regions from 11.50am-12.05pm UTC, and for 14 minutes in AP regions from 11.48am-12.02pm UTC.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Webhook delivery failures major 2025-10-29 08:57 UTC 45m

Affected: Integrations

Failure mode: A code release introduced the failure. Root cause: A bug in the vendor's own code. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with high confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We are experiencing an elevated level of errors impacting Ably Reactor Webhook delivery. We have identified the issue and are currently deploying a fix.

  2. identified

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. identified

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  4. identified

    A fix has been deployed and Ably Reactor Webhook delivery service is recovering.

  5. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

  6. postmortem

    # Summary of incident affecting the Ably production service on 28-29 October - investigation and conclusions ## Overview There was an incident affecting Ably's service between 28 and 29 October 2025, which affected the delivery of webhooks. The impact of the incident lasted from...

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Ably website, customer dashboard & Control API issues major 2025-10-09 14:10 UTC 0m

Affected: Ably Website

Failure mode: Network, DNS, routing or connectivity failure. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    Customers may be experiencing connectivity issues affecting our website (ably.com), customer dashboards, the Control API (control.ably.net), the Ably blog and documentation. Our realtime services are not affected by this issue at this time.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Elevated Realtime errors in EU regions major 2025-08-13 12:47 UTC 38m

Affected: Push Notifications - Europe (Ireland), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt)

Failure mode: The text does not say enough to tell. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring

    Issue has been resolved, we are monitoring.

  3. resolved

    The incident has been resolved

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Elevated Realtime Publish Errors - eu-west-1 minor 2025-07-18 14:58 UTC 41m

Affected: Europe (Ireland)

Failure mode: A zone, region or data center became unavailable. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We're experiencing an elevated level of realtime publish errors in eu-west-1 and are currently looking into the issue.

  2. investigating

    We're experiencing an elevated level of realtime publish errors in eu-west-1 and are looking into the issue.

  3. investigating

    We are continuing to investigate an elevated level of realtime publish errors in eu-west-1 for a single customer. There is no wider impact.

  4. resolved

    We have identified the issue which relates to an internal error rate. While this was elevated, there was no impact to customers.

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Elevated Errors in us-east-1 minor 2025-06-03 04:25 UTC 1h 17m

Affected: Push Notifications - US East (North Virginia), US East (Northern Virginia)

Failure mode: A zone, region or data center became unavailable. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

Names an upstream provider: AWS.

  1. investigating

    We're experiencing an elevated level of errors in the us-east-1 region and are currently looking into the issue.

  2. investigating

    We are continuing to investigate. We have also identified issues with push delivery in us-east-1 and are investigating.

  3. monitoring

    The us-east-1 region has been disabled, so realtime connections and API traffic should be handled without issue in other regions. Push delivery is also back to normal. We are continuing to monitor.

  4. monitoring

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  5. resolved

    Service is restored in us-east-1 and all services are operating normally.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Elevated Push Notification Error Rate minor 2025-05-09 18:00 UTC 2h 51m

Affected: Push Notifications - US East (North Virginia)

Failure mode: The text does not say enough to tell. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We're experiencing an elevated level of push notification errors and are currently investigating the issue.

  2. monitoring

    Some push notification messages may be delayed. We have deployed a fix and are now monitoring.

  3. resolved

    Push notification errors have reduced and this issue is now resolved.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Elevated error rates for some applications in us-east-2 none 2025-02-17 02:56 UTC 14m

Affected: US East (Ohio)

Failure mode: A zone, region or data center became unavailable. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We're investigating elevated error rates for some applications in us-east-2. We will update with more information when we have it

  2. investigating

    Error rates are back to normal. We are continuing to investigate what the issue was.

  3. resolved

    Error rates have been back to normal since 0255 (UTC).

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Some ingress integration rules not running in eu-central-1 none 2024-11-05 10:41 UTC 3h 20m

Affected: Integrations

Failure mode: A zone, region or data center became unavailable. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. identified

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  2. monitoring

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. monitoring

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  4. monitoring

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  5. monitoring

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  6. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Elevated channel attach failure rates in ap-southeast-2 minor 2024-10-21 13:47 UTC 20m

Affected: Asia Pacific (Sydney)

Failure mode: A zone, region or data center became unavailable. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. identified

    At 13:47 UTC we observed elevated failure rates of channel attaches to some channels in the ap-southeast-2 (Sydney) region. We have identified what we believe to be the cause and rolled out a mitigation, which completed at 14:08. No other regions were affected.

  2. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

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Occasional anomalously-high `messages.inbound.rest.messages.refused` stat when a rest publish is refused none 2024-10-11 10:12 UTC 2h 8m

Affected: Ably Platform

Failure mode: Data delayed, stale, lost or corrupted, or needing replay after recovery. Root cause: A bug in the vendor's own code. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with high confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. identified

    Since Monday 7th, a REST publish that was refused by Ably's servers (for example, for being above the maximum message size) had a small probability of contributing an incorrect, anomalously high message inbound refused stat (key `messages.inbound.rest.messages.refused`) to app...

  2. resolved

    The fix for this has been fully rolled-out.

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Elevated rates of 502 responses minor 2024-10-08 15:10 UTC 1h 22m

Affected: Ably Platform

Failure mode: CDN or edge layer failed or served bad content. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We have been alerted to an issue where our edge proxy (CloudFront) is responding to requests with 502 errors at an elevated (but still low) rate, and are investigating. If you are experiencing any issues, please let us know at https://ably.com/support.

  2. monitoring

    We have identified and mitigated this issue and are now monitoring.

  3. resolved

    This incident has now been resolved.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Some SSE connections disconnected and reconnected every 30s none 2024-10-01 13:05 UTC 0m

Failure mode: The text does not say enough to tell. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    For most of the production cluster, between 13:05 and 14:02 UTC on 2024-10-01, a small proportion of SSE connections were disconnected 30 seconds after establishing a connection. For the duration of that 30s they still worked fine, and connection resumption was working...

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Inaccurate day and month stats aggregates since 8th September minor 2024-09-24 17:35 UTC 25h 14m

Affected: Ably Platform, Ably Control API, Ably Website

Failure mode: Data delayed, stale, lost or corrupted, or needing replay after recovery. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. identified

    We have been alerted to an issue with stats aggregation (app stats through our stats api and account stats through the website dashboard) since 8th September that can lead to messages being double-counted in day and month aggregates. We have identified the problem and are in the...

  2. resolved

    The remediation is complete; app and account day and month aggregates should now be correct again. Apologies again for the inconvenience. (For nearly all customers at least; for customers on enterprise dedicated clusters it might take a few more hours before the month aggregrate...

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Ably.com (Website Only) intermittent connection issues minor 2024-09-17 18:21 UTC 46m

Affected: Ably Website

Failure mode: A provider or third-party service this vendor depends on failed. Root cause: A failure at a provider or vendor they depend on. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with high confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

Names an upstream provider: Cloudflare.

  1. investigating

    We are currently investigating an intermittent issue where some users cannot access ably.com.

  2. identified

    There is an ongoing incident with Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/jnj1y9f5c1r8) which is impacting responsiveness of the Ably website and several minor Ably web properties. We are monitoring the status of that incident, and bringing services online by...

  3. resolved

    Cloudflare is indicating that the incident is resolved, and all Ably services appear to be operating normally. We will continue to monitor the situation.

Excerpts are shortened. Read the full incident on Ably's status page.

Increased latency in Europe (Ireland) Realtime endpoints minor 2024-09-17 15:00 UTC 0m

Failure mode: A zone, region or data center became unavailable. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    15:00 UTC - We are currently investigating increased latency for Realtime endpoints in our Europe (Ireland) region. 15:25 UTC - Latencies are back to expected levels and the service is operating as normal.

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Push notification and queue delivery issues minor 2024-08-29 09:41 UTC 32m

Affected: Asia-Pacific (Singapore), Push Notifications - US East (North Virginia), Ably Queues - US East (Northern Virginia)

Failure mode: The text does not say enough to tell. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We're experiencing issues delivering push notifications in the ap-southeast-1 region. We are investigating and will post an update soon.

  2. monitoring

    We have identified the issue and implemented mitigation. We will continue to monitor this issue.

  3. resolved

    This issue is now resolved and queue and push services are operating as expected.

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brief partial network partition between us-east-1 and eu-central-1 none 2024-08-22 22:57 UTC 0m

Affected: Europe (Frankfurt), US East (Northern Virginia)

Failure mode: Network, DNS, routing or connectivity failure. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with high confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

Names an upstream provider: AWS.

  1. resolved

    Between 22:43 and 22:50 UTC, us-east-1 and eu-central-1 datacenters experienced network issues communicating between each other. Seemingly no other pairs of regions were affected, only those two. Messages published in one of those two regions during that time may have...

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Transient network partition between eu-central-1 and US datacenters none 2024-08-20 19:17 UTC 0m

Affected: Europe (Ireland)

Failure mode: Network, DNS, routing or connectivity failure. Root cause: Network or DNS. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with high confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

Names an upstream provider: AWS.

  1. resolved

    Between 18:58 and 19:02 UTC the eu-central-1 suffered a partial netsplit from US regions (us-east-1, us-west-1, us-east-2). Customers in some parts of the world may have experienced increased error rates and latencies during this time.

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Transient netsplit in us-east-2 leading to protracted netsplit for a few channels none 2024-08-12 14:08 UTC 0m

Affected: US East (Ohio)

Failure mode: Network, DNS, routing or connectivity failure. Root cause: A bug in the vendor's own code. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    At 03:32 UTC on the 12th, the us-east-2 (Ohio) data center was partially partitioned (netsplit) from the rest of the cluster. The netsplit was healed by 03:40. However, a very small proportion of channels did not self-heal, and remained partitioned between us-east-2 and at least...

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Issue with Ably Queues in eu-west-1 major 2024-08-09 13:40 UTC 4m

Affected: Ably Queues - Europe (Ireland)

Failure mode: Orchestration, control plane, service discovery or load balancing failed. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    9th August 12:57 UTC We have become aware of an issue with our Ably Reactor Queues in eu-west-1 and are investigating. 9th August 13:30 UTC We have identified the issue and rectified it. The coordinator node for our eu-west-1 Reactor Queue cluster became unresponsive. This meant...

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Elevated 5xx error rate for connection creation in us-east-1 minor 2024-06-18 12:30 UTC 54m

Failure mode: Network, DNS, routing or connectivity failure. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

Names an upstream provider: AWS.

  1. resolved

    There was an elevated 5xx error rate for connection creation from the us-east-1 datacenter from 13:24-14:20 UTC, due to a broken router process, which was then removed from service. The error rate in that region peaked at 4%. No other regions were affected. Any customers using...

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Push notification delivery issues minor 2024-05-08 07:30 UTC 1h

Failure mode: A code release introduced the failure. Root cause: A bug in the vendor's own code. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    8th May 2024 08:30:00 AM We're experiencing issues delivering push notifications. The root cause has been identified and we are fixing this now. We are rolling out a fix which we expect to complete before 1355UTC today. 8th May 01:45 PM All push notifications that were attempted...

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Intermittent issues affecting ably.com minor 2024-03-19 14:14 UTC 0m

Failure mode: The text does not say enough to tell. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    We are currently investigating an issue affecting https://ably.com. Users may experience intermittent 500 errors. 19th Mar 02:30 PM We have taken mitigating actions and error rates have returned to normal levels.

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Planned maintenance for ably.com and control.ably.net major 2024-03-19 08:00 UTC 0m

Failure mode: A provider or third-party service this vendor depends on failed. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    On Tuesday 19th March at 08:00 UTC we performed backend maintenance for ably.com and control.ably.net which lasted 30 minutes. During this period these services were unavailable. This did not affect the realtime system. Please contact Ably support if you have any concerns, or...

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Elevated error rates in eu-central-1 minor 2023-10-20 03:07 UTC 0m

Failure mode: A zone, region or data center became unavailable. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    We've been alerted to slightly elevated error rates in eu-central-1 and are investigating. 20th Oct 04:14 AM The issue is resolved and service is back to normal.

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ably.com website, blog and control API down major 2023-10-06 02:31 UTC 13h

Failure mode: A code release introduced the failure. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    The Ably website is unavailable, responding with 500 errors. We are currently investigating. 6th Oct 03:34 PM We are deploying a change that we expect will resolve the issue. 6th Oct 03:36 PM The ably.com site, blog and control API are back up.

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Network issues for reactor queues in us-east-1 minor 2023-09-28 17:00 UTC 1h 50m

Failure mode: Network, DNS, routing or connectivity failure. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

Names an upstream provider: AWS.

  1. resolved

    We're currently experiencing network timeouts for hosted reactor queues in the us-east-1 region, we are investigating. 28th Sep 09:01 PM Our team are continuing to investigate network timeouts for hosted reactor queues in the us-east-1 region. 28th Sep 10:03 PM We have deployed...

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ably.com and support.ably.com down major 2023-09-27 17:09 UTC 1h

Failure mode: A provider or third-party service this vendor depends on failed. Root cause: A failure at a provider or vendor they depend on. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with high confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    Heroku is currently experiencing issues and this is affecting our website (ably.com), customer dashboards, blog and CMS. Our realtime services are not affected by this issue at this time. Heroku's status incident is available at - https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2590 27th...

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Timeouts and High Latencies Across All Regions major 2023-09-01 14:18 UTC 1h

Failure mode: Traffic surge or denial-of-service attack. Root cause: An external attack. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with high confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

Names an upstream provider: AWS.

  1. resolved

    Timeouts and high latencies experienced across all regions between 15:18 UTC and 15:31 UTC. The cause of the issue was transient load causing temporary resource starvation. We are working on mitigating this going forward.

  2. postmortem

    # Summary of incident affecting the Ably production service 1 September - investigation and conclusions ## Overview There was an incident affecting Ably production services on 1 September 2023, which impacted a significant fraction of connections to primary and fallback...

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Problems with US-only routing policies minor 2023-07-19 09:35 UTC 1h

Failure mode: A configuration change caused the failure. Root cause: A configuration change. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with high confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

Names an upstream provider: AWS.

  1. resolved

    Customers using a US-only routing policy (eg environment="us") who would naturally have been routed to us-east-1 may be experiencing issues, we are investigating 19th Jul 11:04 AM This has now been resolved. The cause was incorrect DNS configuration for the US-only routing...

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EU Only Endpoint Issues minor 2023-07-10 10:30 UTC 1h

Failure mode: Network, DNS, routing or connectivity failure. Root cause: A configuration change. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with high confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    We are having issues with EU only endpoints and are currently investigating 10th Jul 12:07 PM We have identified the root cause and the issue is fully resolved. Ably EU routing is now working as expected. The root cause of the issue related to DNS records for our eu-central...

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Issues with unbatched webhook and other service integration creation and delivery minor 2023-05-03 15:33 UTC 1h

Failure mode: A code release introduced the failure. Root cause: A bug in the vendor's own code. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    We have received reports of issues with webhook creation and deliveries and are currently investigating. A rollback is currently in progress. We will provide a further update when we have further information. 3rd May 05:47 PM All delivery and creation issues are resolved. We are...

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Elevated 502 error rate 15:40 and 17:40 UTC minor 2023-03-21 16:00 UTC 0m

Failure mode: A code release introduced the failure. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    Between 15:40 and 17:40 UTC, customers using the REST API directly may have observed 502 error responses. Our SDKs automatically retry 5xx responses to fallback endpoints, so customers using SDKs should not have noticed anything except increased latency due to the retries. The...

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Ably.com website and control API disruption minor 2023-02-15 11:23 UTC 0m

Failure mode: The text does not say enough to tell. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    We have a recurrence of the issues earlier this morning and are investigating. Currently ably.com and the control API are slow to respond with increased error rates. 15th Feb 12:00 PM The ably.com site and control API are continuing to experience some disruption with elevated...

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Ably.com website and control API disruption minor 2023-02-15 08:39 UTC 0m

Failure mode: Data delayed, stale, lost or corrupted, or needing replay after recovery. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    The ably.com website, dashboard and control API are experiencing disruption, intermittently since 0749 UTC on 15 February. We are investigating and will post here with further updates. 15th Feb 09:03 AM We are still working to understand the root cause of this problem. We don't...

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Possible reachability issues to us-east-2 ohio minor 2023-01-26 00:10 UTC 0m

Failure mode: A zone, region or data center became unavailable. Root cause: The vendor does not say why it happened. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    External monitors are reporting reachability issues for US-East-2 Ohio endpoints. All other data centers are operating normally, and service is unaffected. For users who would normally reach us-east-2, SDKs will automatically retry any timed out requests at a fallback data...

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Unnecessary leave and immediate re-enter events since Tuesday minor 2022-11-15 09:00 UTC 0m

Failure mode: A code release introduced the failure. Root cause: A bug in the vendor's own code. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with high confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    Customers using our presence feature may have seen sporadic spurious leave + immediate re-enter events for presence members over the last two days, since Tuesday. We have rolled back to a version of the service which does not have the bug, and we apologise for any inconvenience.

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Elevated errors across multiple regions minor 2022-10-20 09:36 UTC 1h

Failure mode: Network, DNS, routing or connectivity failure. Root cause: Network or DNS. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with high confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. resolved

    We are investigating elevated error rates across multiple regions for a period of 8 minutes (10:36 - 10:44 UTC). Service appears to be operating normally now. 20th Oct 11:20 AM Investigations show there was a transient netsplit between us-west-1 and other regions, leading to...

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