# LiveKit: Incident silently edited: Increased join latency in US East and US Central

> Incident silently edited: Increased join latency in US East and US Central. Detected 2026-10-21 by Rewindex: what changed on LiveKit’s status page, with the before/after diff.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/rf471b1ffbb119f
Last updated: 2026-10-21T00:23:09Z

**Summary:** _summary pending_
- Kind: Silent edit · Label: Wording only (typesafe/jev-1.13-20260917)
- Changed: 2026-10-21 00:23 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-21 00:23 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/1jh7l7w7vk2z](https://stspg.io/1jh7l7w7vk2z)
- [Company: LiveKit](https://rewindex.com/company/livekit.md)
- Versions: before incident\_version:666/32478ky44148@9e329d35e4e5 → after incident\_version:666/32478ky44148@d97acc1ae5a9
- Change 5 of 5 for this incident

Incident page (full timeline): [Increased join latency in US East and US Central](https://rewindex.com/company/livekit/incidents/32478ky44148.md)
## What changed

**1. Changed: Update** (monitoring) · 2026-10-20 23:25 UTC

```diff
  …US East regions that caused a subset of
- agent room joins
+ connection latencies
  to take 5 seconds or longer. We applied…
```

**2. Changed: Update** (resolved) · 2026-10-20 23:50 UTC

```diff
  …21:30 and 23:17 UTC, roughly 10% of all
- Real Time Communication(RTC)
+ WebRTC
  connections in our US East and US Central…
  …and US Central regions took 5 seconds or
- longer.
+ longer to establish.
  We applied a mitigation at 23:15 UTC, and…
  …applied a mitigation at 23:15 UTC, and join
- times
+ latencies have
  returned to normal by 23:17 UTC. We will…
  …root cause and preventive actions in a postmortem.
+ We apologize for the impact and appreciate your patience.
```

## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-20 23:33 UTC | [Incident updated: Slow agent room joins in US East and US Central](https://rewindex.com/change/r649d4b0c81772c.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 23:53 UTC | [Incident updated: Increased agent join latency in US East and US Central](https://rewindex.com/change/ra8f555a655c692.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-21 00:03 UTC | [Incident silently edited: Increased join latency in US East and US Central](https://rewindex.com/change/re6feb9e95aa360.md) | Wording only |
| 2026-10-21 00:13 UTC | [Incident silently edited: Increased join latency in US East and US Central](https://rewindex.com/change/r915ead4625f138.md) | Wording only |
| 2026-10-21 00:23 UTC | Incident silently edited: Increased join latency in US East and US Central (this change) | Wording only |

Previous: [change](https://rewindex.com/change/r915ead4625f138.md) · All LiveKit changes: [timeline](https://rewindex.com/company/livekit/changes.md)
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## Cite this

Incident silently edited: Increased join latency in US East and US Central on LiveKit’s status page, changed 2026-10-21 00:23 UTC (change 5 of 5).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/change/rf471b1ffbb119f
- Citation: LiveKit, “Incident silently edited: Increased join latency in US East and US Central” (2026-10-21 00:23 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/change/rf471b1ffbb119f (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[LiveKit: Incident silently edited: Increased join latency in US East and US Central (2026-10-21)](https://rewindex.com/change/rf471b1ffbb119f)`


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/rf471b1ffbb119f · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/change/rf471b1ffbb119f.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/changes/rf471b1ffbb119f · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-11-04T17:56:02.017Z