Balena incident

Degraded Performance

Resolved after 17 hours 6 minutes, affecting API and Application Builder and 1 more, on December 23, 2025.

resolved Dec 24, 2025, 09:38 AM UTC

Insufficient AWS compute capacity overloaded the remaining nodes. This high load caused readiness probes to fail, triggering API restarts that created a feedback loop of increasing pressure.

Started
Dec 23, 2025, 04:32 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 24, 2025, 09:38 AM UTC
Duration
17h 6m
Detected by Pingoru
Dec 23, 2025, 04:32 PM UTC

Affected components

APIApplication Builderbalenahub

Update timeline

  1. investigating Dec 23, 2025, 04:32 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue affecting the availability of balenaCloud services.

  2. monitoring Dec 23, 2025, 07:03 PM UTC

    Scaling issues during service deployment caused by unavailability of nodes from underlying scaling provider.

  3. resolved Dec 24, 2025, 09:38 AM UTC

    Insufficient AWS compute capacity overloaded the remaining nodes. This high load caused readiness probes to fail, triggering API restarts that created a feedback loop of increasing pressure.

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