Sauce Labs incident

2026-January-29 Resolved Service Incident

Resolved after 1 hour 42 minutes, on January 29, 2026.

postmortem Feb 03, 2026, 02:01 PM UTC

### **Dates:** Thursday, January 29th 2026, 07:04 - 08:46 UTC. ### **What happened:** Between 07:04 UTC and 08:46 UTC on January 29, 2026, customers using our US-West-1 region experienced instability with Mac resources. Specifically: * Approximately 20% of iOS simulator jobs failed to start due to infrastructure errors. * 10% of Virtual MacOS/iOS jobs failed to upload assets to S3. As a result, logs, videos, and screenshots for these specific jobs were lost and remain unavailable for download. ### **Why it happened:** Scheduled maintenance on a primary network circuit coincided with high traffic volume, which led to congestion on the backup circuit. ### **How we fixed it:** Full connectivity was restored when traffic was routed back to the primary circuit following the completion of maintenance. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** Review network redundancy strategies and consider upgrading backup circuit capacity to ensure it can support peak traffic loads.

Started
Jan 29, 2026, 07:04 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 29, 2026, 08:46 AM UTC
Duration
1h 42m
Detected by Pingoru
Jan 29, 2026, 07:04 AM UTC

Update timeline

  1. resolved Jan 29, 2026, 11:11 AM UTC

    Between 8:00 CET - 9:45 CET, We were seeing elevated error rates and intermittent issues with test assets not being retained for tests on iOS and Mac virtual devices in our US-West-1 data center. The issue has now been resolved but some customers might see missing test assets.

  2. postmortem Feb 03, 2026, 02:01 PM UTC

    ### **Dates:** Thursday, January 29th 2026, 07:04 - 08:46 UTC. ### **What happened:** Between 07:04 UTC and 08:46 UTC on January 29, 2026, customers using our US-West-1 region experienced instability with Mac resources. Specifically: * Approximately 20% of iOS simulator jobs failed to start due to infrastructure errors. * 10% of Virtual MacOS/iOS jobs failed to upload assets to S3. As a result, logs, videos, and screenshots for these specific jobs were lost and remain unavailable for download. ### **Why it happened:** Scheduled maintenance on a primary network circuit coincided with high traffic volume, which led to congestion on the backup circuit. ### **How we fixed it:** Full connectivity was restored when traffic was routed back to the primary circuit following the completion of maintenance. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** Review network redundancy strategies and consider upgrading backup circuit capacity to ensure it can support peak traffic loads.

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