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Apollo GraphQL: Major incident: Embedded Explorer and Embedded Sandbox temporarily down

Summary

Apollo GraphQL’s Embedded Explorer and Embedded Sandbox were down in a major-impact incident from 2026-08-05 09:43 UTC to 2026-08-05 10:08 UTC, lasting 25 min. Apollo identified the issue, deployed a fix, and confirmed resolution; no cause was stated.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 79%)Changed Detected Source: status.apollographql.com

What changed

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After: Embedded Explorer and Embedded Sandbox temporarily down
AddedImpact#2
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After: major
AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
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After: 2026-08-05 09:43 UTC
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After: 2026-08-05 10:08 UTC
AddedUpdateidentified#6
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After: Embedded Explorer and Embedded Sandbox are temporarily down. The issue has been identified and a fix is being deployed.
AddedUpdateresolved#7
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After: The issue has been fixed.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Embedded Explorer and Embedded Sandbox temporarily down (this change)
Apollo GraphQL’s Embedded Explorer and Embedded Sandbox were down in a major-impact incident from 2026-08-05 09:43 UTC to 2026-08-05 10:08 UTC, lasting 25 min. Apollo identified the issue, deployed a fix, and confirmed resolution; no cause was stated.
Major incident

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