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2026-June-24 Resolved Service Incident

Incident Report for Sauce Labs

Postmortem

Dates:

Wednesday, June 24th 2026, 09:42 UTC - 15:45 UTC.

What happened:

Real Device test sessions using Appium and Access API experienced increased error rates in the US East, US West, and EU data centers.

Sessions were timing out after approximately 90 seconds or becoming stuck in the "Connecting" state, preventing them from being closed.

Why it happened:

A product defect was introduced, causing Real Device test sessions to fail to start and preventing active sessions from being closed.

How we fixed it:

Rollback to a stable version.

What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:

Improve monitoring & alerting and enhance post deployment validation.

Posted Jul 22, 2026 - 20:50 UTC

Resolved

On June 24th between 08:28 UTC and 15:32 UTC, we experienced Real Device test session failures impacting Appium and Access API in the US East, US West and EU data centers. This issue has been resolved. All services are fully operational.
Posted Jun 24, 2026 - 16:39 UTC