Uploadcare outage, 15 December 2025
Upload API Degradation.
- Started
- Resolved
- 16 Dec 2025, 03:32 UTC (after 9 h 26 min)
- Impact
- Major
- Affected
- Upload API, REST API, Dashboard
Last update from Uploadcare
# **Analysis of the December 15, 2025, Upload API Disruption** ## 1. Summary On December 15, 2025, the Uploadcare platform experienced a significant service disruption affecting the Upload API and REST API subsystems. The incident, spanning approximately ten hours, resulted in elevated error rates for file uploads, increased latency across API endpoints, and interruptions of Dashboard operations. ## 2. Root cause The root cause was a resource contention event on Amazon Elastic File System \(EFS\), aggravated by an observability side-effect. A monitoring agent, executing a metadata-heavy recursive file scan, monopolized the I/O capacity of the shared NFS mount points. This I/O saturation...
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