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Braintrust

AI. Source: Braintrust status page.

Incidents, last 90 days
7
Median to mitigation
4m
Median to resolution
33m
p95 to resolution
4h 33m
Naming an upstream provider
14%
With a postmortem on the status page
0%

What failed, last 90 days

The text does not say enough to tell3
A code release introduced the failure2
Traffic surge or denial-of-service attack1
A provider or third-party service this vendor depends on failed1

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

Incidents per month

Hatched months are before the recorded history starts.

All recorded incidents

Elevated errors and latency on the US data plane API major 2026-09-30 11:36 UTC 1h 18m

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 investigating elevated errors affecting the Braintrust control plane APIs. Some users may experience failures when accessing projects, prompts, settings, or creating new resources.

  2. investigating

    We are investigating elevated error rates and increased latency on the US centrally-hosted data plane. Some requests, including function invocations, BTQL queries and loading logs or experiments in the UI, may fail or time out.

  3. monitoring

    We have applied a fix and are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved

    The issue has been resolved.

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Slow or failed data loading in US region major 2026-09-09 21:30 UTC 40m

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. investigating

    We're investigating slow or failed data loading affecting some customers on our US-hosted service. Affected pages may load slowly, hang, or show errors.

  2. monitoring

    We've applied a mitigation for the data-loading issue affecting our US-hosted service and are monitoring performance. We'll share another update once we've confirmed stability.

  3. resolved

    The issue causing slow or failed data loading in our US-hosted service has been resolved. We're sorry for the disruption.

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

Elevated 5XXs on Control Plane API major 2026-09-04 15:19 UTC 33m

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 investigating elevated errors affecting the Braintrust control plane APIs. Some users may experience failures when accessing projects, prompts, settings, or creating new resources.

  2. monitoring

    We have mitigated the issue causing elevated errors in the Braintrust control plane APIs, we are continuing to monitor closely.

  3. resolved

    The issue causing elevated errors in the Braintrust control plane APIs has been resolved.

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

Gateway 5xxs major 2026-08-28 20:38 UTC -104m

Failure mode: Traffic surge or denial-of-service attack. Root cause: Not enough capacity for the load. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    The gateway encountered a load spike leading to 5xx errors.

  2. resolved

    The load spike has subsided and 5xxs are mitigated

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

Gateway 5xxs major 2026-08-28 18:24 UTC -150m

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. investigating

    A fresh gateway deploy was attempted and led to 5xx errors, and then was immediately rolled back.

  2. resolved

    The deploy was rolled back and gateway 5xxs were mitigated.

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

Gateway 5xxs major 2026-08-28 18:21 UTC -1746m

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. investigating

    A deployment caused the gateway to begin returning 5xxs for a portion of traffic.

  2. resolved

    The faulty deploy was rolled back and 5xxs were mitigated.

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Upstream package mirror is degraded, Brainstore is not currently affected none 2026-08-19 18:01 UTC 4h 33m

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: AWS.

  1. monitoring

    The upstream APT package mirror on AWS us-east-1 is degraded. **There is currently no downtime** and we are looking into alternative package mirrors in the meantime. Please note that for **both the Braintrust-hosted data plane and self-hosted data planes:** EC2 instance...

  2. resolved

    The upstream APT package mirror in AWS us-east-1 has recovered and we're no longer seeing impact when starting new brainstore instances.

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Gateway 5XXs major 2026-08-03 19:52 UTC 27m

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. identified

    We identified an issue causing 5XXs introduced by a recent Gateway deployment and are currently rolling it back.

  2. monitoring

    The issue has been resolved. We are monitoring the service to confirm normal operation.

  3. resolved

    The issue has been resolved and service has remained stable following the rollback. We will continue to monitor internally, but this incident is now considered resolved.

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

High 504 error rate in EU data plane critical 2026-07-16 08:32 UTC 28m

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. investigating

    The hosted EU data plane is currently experiencing a very high rate of 504 errors.

  2. resolved

    We have reverted to an older configuration to avoid an AWS outage with Cloudfront.

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

US Data plane outage critical 2026-06-12 18:38 UTC -12m

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).

  1. investigating

    Our US data plane is encountering issues.

  2. resolved

    A configuration change was identified as the root cause and reverted.

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Issues loading logs page major 2026-06-04 23:06 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 low confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We're experiencing issues loading logs and some other pages in Braintrust. Our team is actively investigating and working to resolve.

  2. resolved

    We have pushed a fix and the loading issues have been remediated.

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

Automation degradation minor 2026-06-04 01:23 UTC -26313m

Failure mode: Login, tokens, certificates or credentials failed. Root cause: A configuration change. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with high confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    On May 15, some automations stopped running which impacted scorer executions.

  2. resolved

    We determined the issue was caused by a role used by the automation service losing required permissions following a configuration change. The issue was reported on May 15 at approximately 1:00 PM PT and resolved on May 16 at 11:50 AM PT. To help prevent similar incidents, we...

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Errors logging into Braintrust major 2026-05-26 21:33 UTC 38m

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. investigating

    Our upstream auth provider is having issues. Fresh logins to Braintrust will fail with an error.

  2. resolved

    Our auth provider has recovered.

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

High rate of errors on control plane major 2026-05-05 23:35 UTC 48m

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. investigating

    We're observing a high rate of errors on the production control plane which is causing errors on braintrust.dev and data plane operations.

  2. identified

    We have identified the cause and are working with an upstream provider on a fix.

  3. monitoring

    We are actively monitoring the fix.

  4. resolved

    We are no longer seeing issues.

  5. resolved

    The issue was caused by our firewall provider unexpectedly blocking traffic despite safeguards we had in place to prevent this behavior. We are actively working with the vendor on additional mitigation measures to reduce the likelihood of this occurring again.

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Control plane outage critical 2026-04-26 07:17 UTC 6m

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. investigating

    Our upstream auth provider is having an outage. Users unable to login to Braintrust.

  2. resolved

    Provider has recovered. Error levels back to zero.

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

Control Plane Database Connectivity Issues critical 2026-04-20 03:33 UTC 16m

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. identified

    We're currently experiencing an issue with database connectivity. We're currently attempting to mitigate by connecting through an alternative method.

  2. monitoring

    We've updated our database connection method and are observing recovery. We're monitoring to look for remaining impact.

  3. resolved

    We're no longer seeing impact from the connectivity issues and we are still investigating the root cause.

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Control plane database degradation critical 2026-04-13 22:21 UTC -30m

Failure mode: Traffic surge or denial-of-service attack. Root cause: A bug in the vendor's own code. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    We experienced a brief period of degraded performance on the Braintrust hosted control plane due to elevated database load. The issue was caused by an internal traffic spike to a specific query pattern.

  2. resolved

    Performance quickly returned to normal when the problematic query was identified and remediated, and we are implementing safeguards to prevent similar future issues.

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Elevated control plane errors major 2026-03-31 17:52 UTC 12m

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. investigating

    We're seeing a high rate of 5xx errors

  2. resolved

    Error rates have dropped and functionality is restored.

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Database load issues with control plane critical 2026-03-20 23:07 UTC 1h 16m

Failure mode: Exhausted memory, disk, CPU, queues, connection pools or quotas. Root cause: Not enough capacity for the load. Tagged by claude-haiku-5-5 with medium confidence (taxonomy v0.2).

  1. investigating

    The control plane is experiencing very high load.

  2. monitoring

    Error rates have recovered by database usage is still high.

  3. monitoring

    Database size is being increased. This will cause a short outage.

  4. monitoring

    DB upgrade complete. CPU usage appears to be at normal levels. Monitoring for now.

  5. resolved

    Load issues have subsided

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Authorization service in degraded state major 2026-03-20 10:01 UTC 31m

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. investigating

    Degraded performance of our authorization provider is causing issues with accessing the control plane.

  2. monitoring

    The authorization provider has applied a mitigation and we're seeing signs of recovery. We're continuing to monitor until all errors have subsided.

  3. resolved

    The authorization provider has completed mitigation work and is reporting a full recovery in their systems. We are no longer observing impact to users.

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Control Plane Errors critical 2026-03-10 19:25 UTC -14m

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. investigating

    An upstream provider had a brief outage that caused high errors in our control plane

  2. resolved

    Provider recovered

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Authorization service in degraded state major 2026-03-10 16:18 UTC 20m

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. investigating

    Degraded performance of our authorization provider is causing issues with accessing the control plane. The service provider is investigating the root issue.

  2. monitoring

    The authorization provider has applied a mitigation and we're seeing signs of recovery. We're continuing to monitor until all errors have subsided.

  3. resolved

    The authorization provider has completed mitigation work and is reporting a full recovery in their systems. We are no longer observing impact to users.

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

S3 Export Automations failing major 2026-03-03 15:50 UTC 34m

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

    S3 automations have stopped running on the expected schedule they were set to.

  2. resolved

    Affected a small subset of users.

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Authorization service in degraded state minor 2026-02-19 16:34 UTC 2h 1m

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. investigating

    Degraded performance of our authorization vendor is causing issues with user authorization accessing the control plane. The vendor has identified the issue and is working on a fix.

  2. investigating

    We've observed improvement in authorization errors but our authorization provider is still reporting a degraded state. We're continuing to monitor.

  3. monitoring

    Impact for Braintrust users appears to have been resolved for the past 30 minutes. We'll continue to monitor until our authorization provider reports full resolution.

  4. resolved

    We have not observed any recurrence of issues and our authorization provider has reported full recovery and stable performance across their entire system.

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Control Plane UI Hanging minor 2026-02-18 21:32 UTC 3m

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. investigating

    At the current moment in time we have reports of hanging in the UI particularly in dataset or trace views. We are currently narrowing down the code change causing the issue. Please stand by we are aware and currently working to resolve.

  2. resolved

    The issue has been resolved and you should be seeing no slowness in the Braintrust Control Plane UI. Please let us know if you have any issues.

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