Sauce Labs Status

After taking remedial action, we are now seeing real devices available for testing in the EU-Central-1 data center. All services are fully operational.

### **Dates:** Monday, June 1st 2026, 13:06 UTC -  15:42 UTC. ### **What happened:** Customers served by the US-EAST-4 region were unable to authenticate or start new test sessions because an incomplete TLS certificate chain was deployed to the core directory services.  ### **Why it happened:** A certificate extraction script defect silently truncated the certificate chain after the certificate authority transitioned to a longer hierarchy.  ### **How we fixed it:** Reverted the certificate rotation and re-applied the previous known ,good certificate to restore authentication services. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** Implementing pre-deployment certificate chain validation, adding active monitoring, and fixing the script's chain-length limitations.

### **Dates:** Wednesday, May 13th 2026, 18:47 UTC - Friday, May 15th 2026, 09:23 UTC. ### **What happened:** Customers were unable to access test run summaries for Real Device Cloud \(RDC\) jobs because events stopped publishing to the jobs Kafka topic in US-EAST. ### **Why it happened:** An authentication key used by the message producer unexpectedly lost its permissions during an account cleanup. ### **How we fixed it:** Manually restored the required permissions to re-establish the connection and resume service. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** Migrating to a permanent service account, implementing a Dead Letter Queue \(DLQ\) for the jobs Kafka topic, and replaying the missing events to restore customer data.

### **Dates:** Thursday, April 23rd 2026, 22:43 UTC - Friday, April 24th 2026, 15:29 UTC ### **What happened:** Video assets were missing for virtual iOS simulator tests on ARM and macOS ARM desktop tests in the US-West and EU data centers. ### **Why it happened:** A product defect was introduced resulting in a screen capture failure. ### **How we fixed it:** We performed a rollback to a stable version. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** We are improving monitoring & alerting to enhance our post deployment validation.

### **Dates:** Thursday, April 16th 2026, 00:00 UTC – 09:15 UTC ### **What happened:** Live and automated tests on iOS 17.0 simulators failed to start in both the EU and US-West data centers. Customers running tests on iOS 17.0 Intel-based simulators were unable to execute their tests for approximately 9 hours. ### **Why it happened:** A deployment introduced an incompatibility affecting iOS 17.0 on Intel-based infrastructure. The issue was not caught prior to release due to insufficient post-deployment test coverage for that specific simulator configuration. ### **How we fixed it:** We performed a rollback to the previous deployment, which restored full iOS 17.0 simulator functionality. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** We are reviving and expanding automated post-deployment tests to cover a broader range of simulator configurations, including legacy Intel-based iOS versions, to catch incompatibilities before they reach production.

### **Dates:** Monday April 7th 2026, ~11:00 – 15:55 UTC ### **What happened:** Some customers experienced 503 errors when running tests via saucectl. The test-composer service was intermittently unavailable, preventing framework-based test execution. ### **Why it happened:** A stale Docker image was deployed to the test-composer service due to a packaging issue that arose during an internal container registry migration. This caused service pods to crash. ### **How we fixed it:** We identified the stale image and redeployed the correct version, restoring the service. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** We are hardening our image deployment pipeline and adding validation checks to ensure container registry migrations do not result in stale or incorrect images being deployed to production.

### **Dates:** Tuesday, March 24th 2026, 09:32 UTC – 15:13 UTC ### **What happened:** Network calls failed on iOS devices during Real Device Cloud sessions where network capture was enabled. Approximately 12-13% of iOS sessions were affected. Android was not impacted. ### **Why it happened:** A deployment introduced a DNS resolution change that was incompatible with the iOS platform, causing network capture to break. ### **How we fixed it:** Rolled back the deployment to restore service. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** Adding synthetic tests to catch network capture regressions before production, and implementing monitoring alerts for faster detection after deployments.

### **Dates:** Wednesday, March 19 2026, 04:45 UTC - 10:47 UTC. ### **What happened:** Approximately 15% of iOS devices in our US-West data center were temporarily unavailable for customer test sessions due to failed internet connectivity checks. ### **Why it happened:** An automated wireless network optimization feature adjusted transmit power levels on access points serving the affected devices, degrading wireless connectivity and causing devices to fail their availability checks. ### **How we fixed it:** The affected access points were identified and restarted, restoring normal wireless connectivity. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** Evaluation of the automated optimization tools and a monitoring improvement.

### **Dates:** Friday, March 13th 2026, 14:43 UTC - 15:11 UTC. ### **What happened:** Real Devices \(iOS and Android\) availability gradually decreased across all data centers. ### **Why it happened:** A product defect was introduced resulting in a small subset of Real Devices \(~10%\) failing to maintain required connectivity. ### **How we fixed it:** Rollback to a stable version. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** Improve monitoring & alerting, enhance post deployment validation.

### **Dates:** Tuesday March 10th 2026, 17:52 - 23:34 UTC ### **What happened:** The majority of iOS devices across all regions became unavailable. ### **Why it happened:** Apple's [ppq.apple.com](http://ppq.apple.com) app verification endpoint was down, causing internal device monitoring checks to fail, bringing devices offline. ### **How we fixed it:** We temporarily disabled these device monitoring checks. ### **What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:** Improved external monitoring to catch outages of apple’s [ppq.apple.com](http://ppq.apple.com) endpoint, loosened device monitoring to not take down live iOS devices if [ppq.apple.com](http://ppq.apple.com) is down.

Sauce Labs will have a two hour previously scheduled maintenance window on July 11th, starting at 17:00 UTC and ending at 19:00 UTC. During this maintenance window, we will be making updates to our infrastructure and services in our US West data center. These maintenance actions may cause portions of the service (including running automated and manual tests) to be unavailable for up to two hours.

Sauce Labs will have a two hour previously scheduled maintenance window on July 11th, starting at 15:00 UTC and ending at 17:00 UTC. During this maintenance window, we will be making updates to our infrastructure and services in our EU Central data center. These maintenance actions may cause portions of the service (including running automated and manual tests) to be unavailable for up to two hours.

Sauce Labs will have a two hour previously scheduled maintenance window on July 11th starting at 13:00 UTC and ending at 15:00 UTC. During this maintenance window, we will be making updates to our infrastructure and services in our US East data center. These maintenance actions may cause portions of the service (including running automated and manual tests) to be unavailable for up to two hours.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.