Honeybadger outage, 15 August 2026
Elevated failure rates on the US error reporting API
- Started
- Resolved
- 15 Aug 2026, 20:48 UTC
- Impact
- Not stated
- Affected
- API
Last update from Honeybadger
Between 19:54 and 20:07 UTC on August 15, requests to our US error reporting API (api.honeybadger.io) experienced an elevated failure rate. During this window, a majority of requests to submit errors and events timed out or received 5xx responses. Browser (JavaScript) error reporting, source map uploads, the Honeybadger web application, dashboards, uptime monitoring, and our EU region were not affected. What happened: Beginning at 19:54 UTC, a single source began submitting error reports at roughly 150 times its normal rate, with payloads several times larger than average. This more than doubled the total volume of data arriving at our ingestion tier, which saturated within a minute. Becaus...
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