Minor incident

LaunchDarkly: Delays in Guarded Rollouts, Progressive Rollouts, Release Pipelines, and Experimentation

Affected: Experiment management, Rollout management, Release pipelines

Current status of LaunchDarkly: Operational — live LaunchDarkly status

Timeline

1. Oct 3, 2026, 07:29 UTC
   identified
   Some automatic changes in LaunchDarkly are being applied later than expected. This affects stage transitions for guarded and progressive rollouts, release pipeline phase progression, and multi-armed bandit traffic reallocations. Delays began at approximately 4:15 PM PT on October 2 2026. In-progress rollouts and experiments remain at their current stage and traffic allocation; nothing has been advanced, reverted, or stopped incorrectly. No data is lost. Delayed changes remain queued and will take effect once processing catches up.
2. Oct 3, 2026, 08:51 UTC
   monitoring
   The backlog of delayed changes has been fully processed as of 1:45 AM PT on October 3. All changes that were delayed during the incident have been applied. No data was lost. We are continuing to monitor.
3. Oct 3, 2026, 09:06 UTC
   resolved
   This incident has been resolved.

Updates as published by LaunchDarkly (original).