# WorkOS: Elevated errors on AuthKit authentication endpoints

> WorkOS status incident “Elevated errors on AuthKit authentication endpoints” on 2026-08-19: impact none (vendor’s label), -1094 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/workos/incidents/5fy1qdlgth9n
Last updated: 2026-08-19T18:14:28Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): none
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-08-19 18:14 UTC · Resolved: 2026-08-19 00:00 UTC · Duration: -1094 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/f6qft677v2kv](https://stspg.io/f6qft677v2kv)
- [Company: WorkOS](https://rewindex.com/company/workos.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2026-08-19 00:00 UTC: On August 18 from 23:59 to 00:03 UTC (August 19), a subset of API requests (primarily AuthKit authentication endpoints) returned HTTP 500 errors. Automatic maintenance of a large, seldom-used internal index caused brief write-ahead-log contention on a primary database that exhausted connection capacity; service recovered automatically within four minutes. We identified the root cause and removed the index from production at 03:53 UTC on August 19 to prevent recurrence.

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: none) posted by WorkOS, started 2026-08-19 18:14 UTC, resolved after -1094 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/workos/incidents/5fy1qdlgth9n
- Citation: WorkOS, “Elevated errors on AuthKit authentication endpoints” (2026-08-19 18:14 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/workos/incidents/5fy1qdlgth9n (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[WorkOS: Elevated errors on AuthKit authentication endpoints (2026-08-19)](https://rewindex.com/company/workos/incidents/5fy1qdlgth9n)`


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