Sentry outage on 3 November 2026
An email when it goes down, and when it’s back.
“Delays in spans and transactions processing”
On 3 November, Sentry had a critical outage from 14:58 to 17:34 UTC (2 h 36 min), covering the dashboard and API being down and delays in processing spans and transactions. According to Sentry's status page, the dashboard and API outage affected both US and EU customers and lasted from 14:57 to 15:25, when the issue was mitigated and both were back up; the incident was marked resolved at 16:30, about an hour before the overall outage ended. Sentry had one other outage in the three days before, and services including Aircall, U-Haul and HiBob also had problems at the same time.
Sentry’s own incident page ↗- When
- 14:58–17:34 UTC
- How long
- 2 h 36 min
- Incident open on its page
- 14:57–16:30 UTC
- Components affected
- 2
- Sentry, 30 days before
- 6 other outages
What broke when
From Sentry’s own status page: when it moved each component into trouble, and back.
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 217 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- API: major outage
- Dashboard: major outage
- Fix in place, monitoring
- API: back to normal
- Dashboard: back to normal
- Resolved
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads Sentry’s official status page at status.sentry.io every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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