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Fly.io: Critical incident: High number of 5XX on the Machines API and dashboard
Summary
Fly.io reported a critical outage with high numbers of 5XX errors on the Machines API and dashboard, starting 2026-07-20 07:10 UTC and resolved at 2026-07-20 17:09 UTC after 9 h 59 min. A fix was implemented; some Managed Postgres v1 clusters were also degraded, while existing machines and Managed Postgres v2 were unaffected.
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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 100%)Changed Detected Source: status.flyio.net (opens in new tab)
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What changed
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After: Existing machines are unaffected. We are investigating the issue.
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After: We are continuing to investigate this issue.
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After: We've identified an internal service providing authentication to our Machines API has failed, our team is currently looking at our options for restoring this service. Existing Machines/Apps will continue to run as normal. Thank you for your patience.
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After: We've identified an internal service providing authentication to our Machines API has failed, our team is currently looking at our options for restoring this service. Existing Machines/Apps will continue to run as normal. Thank you for your patience.
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After: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
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After: Some Managed Postgres v1 clusters are degraded. We are working on fixing them. Managed Postgres v2 is unaffected.
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After: We are still working on fixing degraded Managed Postgres clusters.
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History of this incident
| When | Change | Kind |
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| Critical incident: High number of 5XX on the Machines API and dashboard (this change) Fly.io reported a critical outage with high numbers of 5XX errors on the Machines API and dashboard, starting 2026-07-20 07:10 UTC and resolved at 2026-07-20 17:09 UTC after 9 h 59 min. A fix was implemented; some Managed Postgres v1 clusters were also degraded, while existing machines and Managed Postgres v2 were unaffected. | Major incident |