# Statsig: Critical incident: Increase in Initialization Errors Client SDKs

**Summary:** Statsig reported a critical increase in client SDK initialization errors affecting Config Delivery API in Asia Southeast 1, Europe West 1, US East 1, US East 5 and US West 1. The incident lasted 39 min, from 2025-08-15 23:26 UTC to 2025-08-16 00:05 UTC; error rates returned to baseline and it was resolved. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2025-08-15 23:26 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/jf4pr1s64xkq](https://stspg.io/jf4pr1s64xkq)
- [Company: Statsig](https://rewindex.com/company/statsig.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:208/4nskddlm93xl@88438886e5a7
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

```diff
+ Increase in Initialization Errors Client SDKs
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**2. Added: Impact**

```diff
+ critical
```

**3. Added: Status**

```diff
+ resolved
```

**4. Added: Start time**

```diff
+ 2025-08-15 23:26 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

```diff
+ 2025-08-16 00:05 UTC
```

**6. Added: Affected components**

```diff
+ Asia Southeast 1, Config Delivery API - Asia Southeast 1, Config Delivery API - Europe West 1, Config Delivery API - US East 1, Config Delivery API - US East 5, Config Delivery API - US West 1, Europe West 1, US East 1, US East 5, US West 1
```

**7. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2025-08-15 23:26 UTC

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+ **08/15/2025 17:05 PDT Mitigated**: Error rates have returned to their baseline **08/15/2025 16:26 PDT Investigating**: We are currently investigating an increase in errors for initialization for client SDKs
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**8. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2025-08-16 00:05 UTC

```diff
+ Resolved.
```

## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-08-15 23:26 UTC | Critical incident: Increase in Initialization Errors Client SDKs (this change) | outage |

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