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Ably reported a major DDoS incident causing token-request errors across all Ably Realtime regions (503 responses) and intermittent ably.com unavailability. Recorded start: 2026-10-01 15:36 UTC; duration: 26 min, with token errors lasting approximately six minutes. Ably restored token-request service by increasing capacity and added targeted traffic-blocking and rate-limiting rules.

Ably reported a major outage affecting access to documentation at ably.com/docs from 2026-09-07 11:25 UTC to 2026-09-07 11:32 UTC, lasting 7 min. Realtime services were unaffected; a fix was implemented at 11:28 UTC, and the incident was resolved.

Ably reported a major incident with elevated errors in ap-southeast-1, affecting Ably Pub/Sub - Asia-Pacific (Singapore) and Asia-Pacific (Singapore). It started at 2026-08-20 19:07 UTC and was resolved at 2026-08-20 19:10 UTC; the computed duration was 2 min. No cause or fix was stated.

Ably reported a major incident involving elevated attachment errors in eu-west-1, affecting Ably Pub/Sub - Europe (Ireland) and Europe (Ireland). It started at 2026-02-14 05:57 UTC and lasted 8 min, resolving at 2026-02-14 06:05 UTC; Ably implemented a fix but did not state a cause.

Ably reported a critical incident affecting connectivity to ably.com, customer dashboards, the Control API (control.ably.net), the Ably blog and CMS; realtime services were unaffected. It started at 2025-12-05 08:59 UTC and was resolved at 2025-12-05 09:18 UTC, lasting 19 min.

Ably reported major Reactor Webhook delivery errors from 2025-10-29 08:57 UTC to 2025-10-29 09:42 UTC (computed duration: 44 min), resolved after a fix. The postmortem attributed the incident to a deployment and reported broader impact from 1134 on 28 October to 0936 on 29 October 2025 UTC.

Ably reported a major incident affecting connectivity to ably.com, customer dashboards, the Control API (control.ably.net), the Ably blog and documentation; realtime services were unaffected. It started and was marked resolved at 2025-10-09 14:10 UTC, with a computed duration of 0 min; no cause or fix was stated.

Ably reported a major incident with elevated Realtime errors affecting Pub/Sub Channels in Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (Ireland), plus Push Notifications in Europe (Ireland). It started at 2025-08-13 12:47 UTC and was resolved at 2025-08-13 13:25 UTC; the computed duration was 37 min. No cause or specific fix was stated.

Ably reported a major outage affecting Ably Queues and Ably Reactor Queues in Europe (Ireland), eu-west-1, starting 2024-08-09 13:40 UTC and resolved at 2024-08-09 13:44 UTC (4 min). An unresponsive coordinator node made https://eu-west-1-a-queue.ably.io:15671 unresponsive; Ably said it rectified the issue.

Ably reported major-impact planned maintenance that made ably.com and control.ably.net unavailable; the realtime system was unaffected. The recorded start is 2024-07-09 10:23 UTC, but resolution is dated 2024-03-19 08:00 UTC; computed duration is unknown, while Ably’s update states maintenance lasted 30 minutes.

Ably reported a major outage of ably.com, its blog and control API, with the website returning 500 errors. The incident started and was marked resolved at 2023-10-06 15:31 UTC (recorded duration: 0 min), although updates describe deploying a change at 03:34 PM UTC and services returning at 03:36 PM UTC.

Ably reported a major outage affecting ably.com, support.ably.com, customer dashboards, blog and CMS, citing Heroku issues; realtime services were unaffected. The incident started and was marked resolved at 2023-09-27 18:09 UTC, with a recorded duration of 0 min, although the update still described website issues.

Ably reported major timeouts and high latencies across all regions starting 2023-09-01 15:18 UTC. Computed duration was 0 min, although updates report disruption until 15:31 UTC. Initial reporting cited transient load causing resource starvation; the postmortem attributed the incident to a DDoS affecting a significant fraction of connections to primary and fallback endpoints.