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Fly.io: Major incident: Partial Sprites outage

Summary

Fly.io reported a major partial Sprites outage with intermittent API failures near SJC, later extending to other regions and affecting creating, connecting to, or managing Sprites. It ran from 2026-09-23 18:44 UTC to 2026-09-24 02:12 UTC (7 h 28 min) and was resolved after mitigations and potential fixes were deployed.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 52%)Changed Detected Source: status.flyio.net (opens in new tab)

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: Partial Sprites outage
AddedImpact#2
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After: major
AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
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After: 2026-09-23 18:44 UTC
AddedResolved time#5
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After: 2026-09-24 02:12 UTC
AddedUpdateinvestigating#6
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After: We are investigating intermittent API failures for users connecting near SJC.
AddedUpdateidentified#7
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After: The issue has been identified and we are rolling out mitigations.
AddedUpdateidentified#8
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After: This issue is now occurring on regions other than SJC. We are still working on a fix.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#9
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After: We have deployed another potential fix and are monitoring results.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#10
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After: Sprites API performance has largely recovered and most users should no longer see errors creating, connecting to, or managing Sprites. We're still seeing a small number of intermittent errors and are investigating them before resolving this incident.
AddedUpdateresolved#11
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After: This incident has been resolved.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Partial Sprites outage (this change)
Fly.io reported a major partial Sprites outage with intermittent API failures near SJC, later extending to other regions and affecting creating, connecting to, or managing Sprites. It ran from 2026-09-23 18:44 UTC to 2026-09-24 02:12 UTC (7 h 28 min) and was resolved after mitigations and potential fixes were deployed.
Major incident

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