Machine Creates Failing in ORD Region

Major Impact Monitoring Ongoing March 26, 2026

Incident Lifecycle

Investigating Investigating Identified Monitoring

Incident Timeline

Monitoring
We've implemented a fix and have seen error rates for machine creates in ORD drop off. We're continuing to monitor the results.
Mar 26, 2026 at 5:28 PM UTC
Identified
We've identified the cause of this increased failure rate and a fix is in progress. We are seeing most creates in ORD succeed at this time, though failure rate is still above baseline.
Mar 26, 2026 at 4:50 PM UTC
Investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue. We are seeing 408 errors decreasing in ORD, though still above baseline.
Mar 26, 2026 at 4:08 PM UTC
Investigating
We are currently investigating elevated errors creating machines in the ORD (Chicago, Illinois) region. Users may see `failed to launch VM: request returned non-2xx status: 408` errors when creating, updating, or scaling machines in ORD.

Existing, already running machines in the ORD region continue to run as normal.
Mar 26, 2026 at 3:21 PM UTC
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