# Mux: Major incident: Elevated errors on Direct Uploads

**Summary:** Mux reported a major Mux Video - VOD incident affecting Direct Uploads, thumbnails, gifs, subtitles and storyboards; some customers experienced failures creating or uploading to direct upload URLs. It started at 2026-10-05 19:44 UTC and lasted 3 h 3 min, resolving at 2026-10-05 22:47 UTC after a fix was implemented and monitored. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2026-10-05 19:44 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/5r6vxskv1fbr](https://stspg.io/5r6vxskv1fbr)
- [Company: Mux](https://rewindex.com/company/mux.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:197/9lh733154jc8@af91cc393964
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ Elevated errors on Direct Uploads
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**2. Added: Impact**

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+ major
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**3. Added: Status**

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

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+ 2026-10-05 19:44 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

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+ 2026-10-05 22:47 UTC
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**6. Added: Affected components**

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+ Mux Video - VOD
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**7. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-10-05 19:44 UTC

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+ We are investigating elevated error rates affecting Direct Uploads, thumbnails, gifs, subtitles, storyboards. Some customers may have experienced failures when creating or uploading to direct upload URLs
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**8. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2026-10-05 20:31 UTC

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+ A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
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**9. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2026-10-05 20:32 UTC

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+ We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
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**10. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2026-10-05 22:47 UTC

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+ This incident has been resolved.
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## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-05 19:44 UTC | Major incident: Elevated errors on Direct Uploads (this change) | outage |

All Mux changes: [timeline](https://rewindex.com/company/mux/changes.md)
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