# Red Hat (incl. Quay.io): quay.io API failures

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: postmortem
- Started: 2026-03-30 20:11 UTC · Resolved: 2026-03-30 23:15 UTC · Duration: 3.1 h
- Updates: 5 · Affected components: Frontend, Quay.io - Frontend, Container Registries - registry.connect.redhat.com, registry.connect.redhat.com, Container Registries - registry.redhat.io, registry.redhat.io, Quay.io - Registry, Registry, API, Quay.io - API, Container Registries - registry.access.redhat.com, registry.access.redhat.com, Container Registries - Registry Account Management, Registry Account Management
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/rky6skxs2n5r](https://stspg.io/rky6skxs2n5r)
- [Company: Red Hat (incl. Quay.io)](https://rewindex.com/company/red-hat.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **identified** 2026-03-30 20:11 UTC: We are seeing 502s with quay.io pushes & pulls
- **identified** 2026-03-30 20:58 UTC: The team has identified the issue and is investigating. We've shifted Quay to be read-only now so pulls should gradually begin restoring but pushes will still fail.
- **monitoring** 2026-03-30 23:03 UTC: We've implemented a fix for the issue, pushes have been restored now.
- **resolved** 2026-03-30 23:15 UTC: Quay.io functionality has been restored.
- **postmortem** 2026-04-20 14:42 UTC: On March 30, 2026, Quay.io experienced a service disruption affecting image pulls and pushes, caused by an unexpected burst of resource-intensive operations that temporarily overloaded our primary database. Our engineering team mitigated the issue by failing over read traffic, restoring image pull capabilities within 45 minutes, and subsequently restored full push functionality once the database stabilized. We have since implemented enhanced traffic filtering and are actively optimizing our systems to prevent this from happening in the future.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2026-03-30 20:11 UTC: [Major incident: quay.io API failures](https://rewindex.com/change/iff2bc869d239c0.md)


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