# Apollo GraphQL: Organization and user modifications are being incorrectly rate limited

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-08-26 22:12 UTC · Resolved: 2026-08-26 23:36 UTC · Duration: 1.4 h
- Updates: 3 · Affected components: Studio UI
- [Vendor status page: https://status.apollographql.com/incidents/01M1023TEW66WKJ3PBK7JCP3FA](https://status.apollographql.com/incidents/01M1023TEW66WKJ3PBK7JCP3FA)
- [Company: Apollo GraphQL](https://rewindex.com/company/apollo-graphql.md)

## Summary

Apollo GraphQL reported a major incident starting 2026-08-26 22:12 UTC: user invites, user permission changes and OAuth changes intermittently failed because rate limits were incorrectly applied. It lasted 1 h 24 min and was resolved at 2026-08-26 23:36 UTC after a fix was deployed to ensure rate limits work as expected. _(machine-written, sol)_
## Timeline of updates

- **identified** 2026-08-26 20:42 UTC: Some organization and user modifications (user invites, user permission changes, OAuth changes) are failing intermittently. We are working on a fix.
- **monitoring** 2026-08-26 22:18 UTC: We are no longer seeing any request failures, but we will continue to monitor until a root cause fix has been deployed.
- **resolved** 2026-08-26 23:36 UTC: The fix has been deployed. These failed operations would have appeared as rate limit errors, but the rate limit was being incorrectly applied. We have made changes to ensure the rate limit works as expected.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2026-08-26 22:12 UTC: [Major incident: Organization and user modifications are being incorrectly rate limited](https://rewindex.com/change/ia6f6234dd1e132.md)


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/apollo-graphql/incidents/01M1023TEW66WKJ3PBK7JCP3FA · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/company/apollo-graphql/incidents/01M1023TEW66WKJ3PBK7JCP3FA.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/companies/apollo-graphql/incidents/01M1023TEW66WKJ3PBK7JCP3FA · Generated 2026-10-18T11:47:24.443Z