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LaunchDarkly: Delays in Guarded Rollouts, Progressive Rollouts, Release Pipelines, and Experimentation

Affected components: Guarded Rollouts (core functionality) - Rollout managementRollout managementFeature management (core functionality) - Release pipelinesRelease pipelinesExperimentation (core functionality) - Experiment managementExperiment management

Timeline of updates

1. identified2026-10-03 07:29 UTC

   Some automatic changes in LaunchDarkly are being applied later than expected. This affects stage transitions for guarded and progressive rollouts, release pipeline phase progression, and multi-armed bandit traffic reallocations. Delays began at approximately 4:15 PM PT on October 2 2026. In-progress rollouts and experiments remain at their current stage and traffic allocation; nothing has been advanced, reverted, or stopped incorrectly. No data is lost. Delayed changes remain queued and will take effect once processing catches up.

2. monitoring2026-10-03 08:51 UTC

   The backlog of delayed changes has been fully processed as of 1:45 AM PT on October 3. All changes that were delayed during the incident have been applied. No data was lost. We are continuing to monitor.

3. resolved2026-10-03 09:06 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

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