Expo outage, 5 October 2026
Website and services partially unavailable due to high database load
- Started
- Resolved
- 5 Oct 2026, 20:11 UTC - reported afterwards
- Impact
- Major
Last update from Expo
The primary database was under high CPU load from 1:11PM-1:29PM PT. The impact of this is that our website and API were partially unavailable \(more precisely, at 80-90% availability\) during that time. ### Scope What was affected: This affected most services including the website, builds, submissions, CI/CD jobs, and publishing updates. What wasn’t affected: Serving updates to end users maintained 100.000% availability. App performance measurements sent to Observe were also unaffected. ### Root cause analysis An internal orchestrator service used to update the state of CI/CD jobs, including build jobs and store submission jobs, was updated to retry upon application-level failures. We a...
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