Linear incident

Errors in creating workspaces

Resolved after 1 hour 11 minutes, affecting US Region – Linear application, on March 9, 2026.

resolved Mar 09, 2026, 11:48 PM UTC

This incident has been resolved and system performance has returned to normal. Thank you for your patience while we worked to resolve the issue.

Started
Mar 09, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 09, 2026, 11:48 PM UTC
Duration
1h 11m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 09, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

Affected components

US Region – Linear application

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 09, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

    We’re investigating degraded performance affecting Linear workspace creation in the US region.

  2. identified Mar 09, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

    We have identified the issue with workspace creation. The team is actively working to mitigate the problem.

  3. identified Mar 09, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC

    We've identified a bug causing workspace creation requests to be incorrectly rate limited. The rate limit was being triggered by error responses, causing all new workspace creation attempts to fail for all customers. We're manually removing the rate limit keys to unblock affected customers.

  4. monitoring Mar 09, 2026, 11:41 PM UTC

    Issue with creating workspaces have been mitigated. Ongoing monitoring continues to ensure all users can create new workspaces again.

  5. resolved Mar 09, 2026, 11:48 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved and system performance has returned to normal. Thank you for your patience while we worked to resolve the issue.

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