# LaunchDarkly: Major incident: Elevated errors affecting LaunchDarkly application requests

**Summary:** LaunchDarkly reported major elevated errors affecting some application requests, with authentication, experiment management, flag targeting, progressive rollouts and the web app listed as affected. The incident started at 2026-06-12 04:23 UTC and resolved at 2026-06-12 04:58 UTC (35 min); monitoring confirmed no further impact beyond the initially reported error window. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2026-06-12 04:23 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/wmq9t01dm9q3](https://stspg.io/wmq9t01dm9q3)
- [Company: LaunchDarkly](https://rewindex.com/company/launchdarkly.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:195/mfy3kpqj9rv9@0242c12cdb29
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ Elevated errors affecting LaunchDarkly application requests
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**2. Added: Impact**

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+ major
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**3. Added: Status**

```diff
+ resolved
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**4. Added: Start time**

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+ 2026-06-12 04:23 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

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+ 2026-06-12 04:58 UTC
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**6. Added: Affected components**

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+ Authentication, Experimentation (core functionality) - Experiment management, Experiment management, Feature management (core functionality) - Flag targeting, Feature management (core functionality) - Progressive rollouts, Flag targeting, Global (core functionality) - Authentication, Global (core functionality) - Web app (app.launchdarkly.com), Progressive rollouts, Web app (app.launchdarkly.com)
```

**7. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2026-06-12 04:23 UTC

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+ We identified a brief period of elevated errors affecting some LaunchDarkly application requests between 7:30-7:37pm PT. The issue has recovered, and we are continuing to monitor.
```

**8. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2026-06-12 04:58 UTC

```diff
+ Monitoring has confirmed no further impact outside of the initially reported 7:30-7:37pm PT timeframe
```

## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-06-12 04:23 UTC | Major incident: Elevated errors affecting LaunchDarkly application requests (this change) | outage |

All LaunchDarkly changes: [timeline](https://rewindex.com/company/launchdarkly/changes.md)
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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/i74727a1208b6c9 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/change/i74727a1208b6c9.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/changes/i74727a1208b6c9 · Generated 2026-10-18T00:39:31.904Z