Major incident

Red Hat: Initial: Quay.io Push/Pull Degraded

Affected: API, Registry, Security Scanning

Current status of Red Hat: Minor issues — live Red Hat status

Timeline

1. Sep 14, 2026, 13:34 UTC
   investigating
   We are experiencing degraded performance on quay.io push/pull API. We are actively investigating.
2. Sep 14, 2026, 14:02 UTC
   investigating
   We have identified the cause of the image pull failures and are implementing a fix. Image pushes may continue to fail while remediation is in progress
3. Sep 14, 2026, 14:04 UTC
   identified
   We have identified the cause of the image pull failures and are implementing a fix. Image pushes may continue to fail while remediation is in progress
4. Sep 14, 2026, 14:08 UTC
   identified
   We have identified the cause of the image push failures and are implementing a fix. Image pushes may continue to fail while remediation is in progress
5. Sep 14, 2026, 15:35 UTC
   identified
   Quay is in read-only mode. Only pulls are being served while we implement the fix.
6. Sep 14, 2026, 19:33 UTC
   identified
   We are continuing to apply the fix. Quay.io remains in read-only mode. Image pulls continue to work, but pushes and other write operations are temporarily unavailable. We will provide another update once the fix is complete.
7. Sep 15, 2026, 00:39 UTC
   identified
   We are continuing to apply the fix. 2 out of 3 affected tables have been updated. The final one is currently running. Quay.io remains in read-only mode. Image pulls continue to work, but pushes and other write operations are temporarily unavailable.
8. Sep 15, 2026, 02:49 UTC
   identified
   The affected database tables have been updated. We are working to restoring full read/write traffic. Quay.io remains in read-only mode.
9. Sep 15, 2026, 04:05 UTC
   monitoring
   The fix has been deployed. Quay.io is serving read/write requests. We are continuing to monitor the service
10. Sep 15, 2026, 04:31 UTC
    monitoring
    Image push and pull operations are functioning normally. We continue to monitor service health. Clair vulnerability scanning is temporarily disabled.
11. Sep 15, 2026, 08:47 UTC
    monitoring
    Registry is operational, security scanning is under maintenance.
12. Sep 15, 2026, 09:15 UTC
    resolved
    Quay.io registry is operational since 15 Sep 2026, 5:00 AM UTC. Security scanning remains on maintenance until further notice. During the incident, some write operations were failing. The registry was put into read-only mode to preserve data integrity. The underlying issue was related to database scaling and was resolved successfully without any data loss.

Updates as published by Red Hat (original).