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

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-10-03 07:29 UTC · Resolved: 2026-10-03 09:06 UTC · Duration: 1.6 h
- Updates: 3 · Affected components: Guarded Rollouts (core functionality) - Rollout management, Rollout management, Feature management (core functionality) - Release pipelines, Release pipelines, Experimentation (core functionality) - Experiment management, Experiment management
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/8k6pt7lv3z6h](https://stspg.io/8k6pt7lv3z6h)
- [Company: LaunchDarkly](https://rewindex.com/company/launchdarkly.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **identified** 2026-10-03 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.
- **monitoring** 2026-10-03 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.
- **resolved** 2026-10-03 09:06 UTC: This incident has been resolved.


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