Honeybadger outage, 8 July 2026
Elevated error rates on the US error reporting API
- Started
- Resolved
- 8 Jul 2026, 11:48 UTC
- Impact
- Major
- Affected
- API
Last update from Honeybadger
Between 06:22 and 08:23 UTC on July 8, requests to our US error reporting API (api.honeybadger.io) experienced a highly elevated failure rate. During this window, a majority of requests to submit errors, events, and check-ins received 5xx responses or timed out. Error reports sent by client libraries without retry logic during this period were not received and cannot be recovered. The Honeybadger web application, dashboards, uptime monitoring, and our EU region were not affected. What happened: Beginning at 06:18 UTC, we started receiving error reports at roughly triple our normal total API volume. The service tier that ingests this traffic was at its overnight capacity level and became sat...
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