Prefect Outage History

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Pingoru has recorded 13 incidents for Prefect: 13 in the last 12 months and 5 in the last 90 days.

Source: status.prefect.io

13incidents recorded
13last 12 months
5last 90 days
30 minutestypical duration
Incidents per month
024AprMayJunJulAugSepOct2
Share of hours with an open incident, any severity
0%50%100%AprMayJunJulAugSepOct0%
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MonthIncidentsHours with an open incident
April 202610 of 720 (0%)
May 202611 of 744 (0%)
June 202631 of 720 (0%)
July 202643 of 744 (0%)
August 202600 of 744 (0%)
September 202621 of 720 (0%)
October 202620 of 546 (0%)

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Minor October 16, 2026 Flow Runs Crashing on Modal Push Work Pools 22m Orchestration

Started Oct 16, 2026, 08:08 PM UTC· resolved Oct 16, 2026, 08:31 PM UTC

  1. identified Oct 16, 2026, 08:08 PM UTC

    Since 18:00 UTC on October 16, most flow runs on Modal push work pools crash during infrastructure startup. Affected runs move from Pending to Crashed with the message "sandbox exited with non-zero code 137." We have tracked the issue to an upgrade in the Modal client library and working to roll back.

  2. resolved Oct 16, 2026, 08:31 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved and Modal push pools are fully operational.

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Minor October 1, 2026 Elevated API Error Rates –

Started Oct 01, 2026, 03:08 PM UTC· resolved Oct 01, 2026, 03:08 PM UTC

  1. resolved Oct 01, 2026, 03:08 PM UTC

    Between 11:08 and 11:16 AM EDT, a subset of requests to the Prefect Cloud API returned elevated error rates. Some users may have seen failed or slow API requests and delays in background processing during this window. The issue has been resolved and all services are operating normally.

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Minor September 30, 2026 Elevated connection errors 1h 20m Automations, Observability, Orchestration, UI

Started Sep 30, 2026, 07:32 PM UTC· resolved Sep 30, 2026, 08:52 PM UTC

  1. monitoring Sep 30, 2026, 07:32 PM UTC

    Between 19:17 and 19:25 UTC, some real-time connections to the Prefect Cloud UI and event streams were interrupted, causing a brief period of elevated errors. Affected clients reconnected automatically.

  2. resolved Sep 30, 2026, 08:52 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor September 21, 2026 Prefect Serverless service disruption –

Started Sep 21, 2026, 10:49 PM UTC· resolved Sep 21, 2026, 10:49 PM UTC

  1. resolved Sep 21, 2026, 10:49 PM UTC

    Between about 22:49 and 00:06 UTC on 21 September, AWS could not start new EC2 and Fargate containers in the us-east-1 region. This caused flow runs submitted in that window to crash. The issue has since been resolved and Prefect Serverless is operating normally.

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Minor July 30, 2026 Service disruption for outbound email 1h 43m Automations, UI

Started Jul 30, 2026, 12:33 AM UTC· resolved Jul 30, 2026, 02:17 AM UTC

  1. identified Jul 30, 2026, 12:33 AM UTC

    We've identified the root cause of the issue affecting outbound email. Customers signing in with an email magic link may be unable to log in. Email invitations and automation email notifications are delayed. Flow runs and API access are unaffected. We'll post another update when the issue is resolved.

  2. monitoring Jul 30, 2026, 02:15 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we're monitoring the results. Email services should now be operating normally. We'll continue to watch closely to confirm full recovery before marking this incident as resolved.

  3. resolved Jul 30, 2026, 02:17 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved. Email-related services are fully operational. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

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Minor July 24, 2026 Service disruption for logs component 5m Observability

Started Jul 24, 2026, 09:21 PM UTC· resolved Jul 24, 2026, 09:26 PM UTC

  1. investigating Jul 24, 2026, 09:21 PM UTC

    We're currently investigating an issue affecting our logs service. Users may experience issues viewing logs. Our team is actively looking into the cause, and we'll provide an update as soon as we have more information.

  2. identified Jul 24, 2026, 09:22 PM UTC

    We've identified the root cause and are working on a fix. Logs may continue to be affected until the fix is fully rolled out. We'll post another update when the issue is resolved.

  3. monitoring Jul 24, 2026, 09:23 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we're monitoring the results. Logs should now be operating normally. We'll continue to watch closely to confirm full recovery before marking this incident as resolved.

  4. resolved Jul 24, 2026, 09:26 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved. Logs are fully operational. The issue was caused by an edge case in autoscaling, and we've taken steps to prevent recurrence. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

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Minor July 16, 2026 Elevated Error Rates 15m Cloud Orchestration, Status page (Prefect Cloud)

Started Jul 16, 2026, 04:09 PM UTC· resolved Jul 16, 2026, 04:25 PM UTC

  1. identified Jul 16, 2026, 04:09 PM UTC

    We are investigating an issue causing intermittent errors when loading flow run lists and details in the UI and API. Other Prefect Cloud functionality - including flow run execution, scheduling, and task orchestration - is not affected, and your workflows continue to run normally. Affected requests may return a 503 error and can be retried. Our engineering team has identified the source and is actively working on remediation. We will provide another update shortly. Back to current status Status History Powered by Status.io Subscribe to receive status updates by email Close Subscribe Manage Subscription Manage Existing Subscription Create New Subscription Subscribe to receive status updates by webhook Each status update will POST a JSON payload to this URL Email address for managing webhook Close Subscribe Manage Subscription Manage Existing Subscription Create New Subscription Subscribe to receive status updates via RSS RSS Feed Close Subscribe to receive status updates in Slack Slack channel ID Find the channel ID: Select the channel in your Slack workspace. The channel ID is displayed in the browser URL. Example: https://app.slack.com/client/T04SJBK1C/ C03SKGJ1P Email address Close Manage Subscription Manage Existing Subscription Create New Subscription

  2. identified Jul 16, 2026, 04:09 PM UTC

    We are investigating an issue causing intermittent errors when loading flow run lists and details in the UI and API. Other Prefect Cloud functionality - including flow run execution, scheduling, and task orchestration - is not affected, and your workflows continue to run normally. Affected requests may return a 503 error and can be retried. Our engineering team has identified the source and is actively working on remediation. We will provide another update shortly.

  3. resolved Jul 16, 2026, 04:25 PM UTC

    Between roughly 15:50 and 16:15 UTC, some requests intermittently returned errors. Execution of flows and tasks was unaffected. Service returned to normal by ~16:15 UTC.

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Minor July 16, 2026 Sign-in disruption due to Work-OS outage 1h 6m Cloud UI, Status page (Prefect Cloud)

Started Jul 16, 2026, 09:48 AM UTC· resolved Jul 16, 2026, 10:55 AM UTC

  1. identified Jul 16, 2026, 09:48 AM UTC

    An ongoing outage at our authentication provider, WorkOS, is preventing new sign-ins (SSO, Google, Microsoft, and magic-link/email). Users already signed in are unaffected, and API keys, workers, and flow runs continue to operate normally. We're monitoring WorkOS's recovery; sign-in will restore automatically. Back to current status Status History Powered by Status.io Subscribe to receive status updates by email Close Subscribe Manage Subscription Manage Existing Subscription Create New Subscription Subscribe to receive status updates by webhook Each status update will POST a JSON payload to this URL Email address for managing webhook Close Subscribe Manage Subscription Manage Existing Subscription Create New Subscription Subscribe to receive status updates via RSS RSS Feed Close Subscribe to receive status updates in Slack Slack channel ID Find the channel ID: Select the channel in your Slack workspace. The channel ID is displayed in the browser URL. Example: https://app.slack.com/client/T04SJBK1C/ C03SKGJ1P Email address Close Manage Subscription Manage Existing Subscription Create New Subscription

  2. identified Jul 16, 2026, 09:48 AM UTC

    An ongoing outage at our authentication provider, WorkOS, is preventing new sign-ins (SSO, Google, Microsoft, and magic-link/email). Users already signed in are unaffected, and API keys, workers, and flow runs continue to operate normally. We're monitoring WorkOS's recovery; sign-in will restore automatically.

  3. identified Jul 16, 2026, 09:50 AM UTC

    We are seeing some recovery on net new cloud UI logins and will continue to monitor.

  4. identified Jul 16, 2026, 09:50 AM UTC

    We are seeing some recovery on net new cloud UI logins and will continue to monitor.

  5. monitoring Jul 16, 2026, 10:19 AM UTC

    We continue to see improved UI log-in success rates in new UI sessions and are continuing to monitor.

  6. monitoring Jul 16, 2026, 10:19 AM UTC

    We continue to see improved UI log-in success rates in new UI sessions and are continuing to monitor.

  7. resolved Jul 16, 2026, 10:55 AM UTC

    We are considering this issue resolved as WorkOS is fully operational.

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Minor April 19, 2026 Degraded Performance detected on status page – Overall

Started Apr 19, 2026, 09:08 PM UTC· resolved Apr 19, 2026, 09:08 PM UTC

No vendor updates were posted for this incident.

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