# Firebolt: Major incident: Start engine may fail

**Summary:** Firebolt reported a major incident in which engines could fail to start, beginning 2022-08-10 11:52 UTC and resolved at 2022-08-10 12:50 UTC after 57 min. Recovery was reported for US-EAST-, then EU-WEST-1, before all regions returned to operational status. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2022-08-10 11:52 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/7t03tl3cyxhd](https://stspg.io/7t03tl3cyxhd)
- [Company: Firebolt](https://rewindex.com/company/firebolt.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:147/r436m4v0cr18@dbf5c62662a4
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

```diff
+ Start engine may fail
```

**2. Added: Impact**

```diff
+ major
```

**3. Added: Status**

```diff
+ resolved
```

**4. Added: Start time**

```diff
+ 2022-08-10 11:52 UTC
```

**5. Added: Resolved time**

```diff
+ 2022-08-10 12:50 UTC
```

**6. Added: Affected components**

```diff
+ Engines, Firebolt Components - Engines
```

**7. Added: Update** (identified) · 2022-08-10 11:52 UTC

```diff
+ Engines may fail to start, we are taking care of it and the issue should be solved soon.
```

**8. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2022-08-10 12:11 UTC

```diff
+ Engines in US-EAST- should start properly. We are resolving the issue in other regions as well.
```

**9. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2022-08-10 12:34 UTC

```diff
+ Engines in EU-WEST-1 should start properly. All the other regions should be resolved soon.
```

**10. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2022-08-10 12:50 UTC

```diff
+ All the regions are back to an operational status. The issue resolved.
```

## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2022-08-10 11:52 UTC | Major incident: Start engine may fail (this change) | outage |

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