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2026-September-28 Service Incident
Resolved incidentMajor1 affected service
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Investigating
We are currently seeing elevated error rates for automated real device tests in US-West-1 data center. We are currently investigating.
Monitoring
The root cause of the elevated error rates for Real Device tests in the US-West-1 data center has been identified. Remediation has been applied, and we are actively monitoring the situation.
Resolved
After taking remedial action, Real Device test error rates have returned to normal in the US-West-1 data center. All services are fully operational.
Resolved
### Dates:
Monday, September 28th 2026, 14:19 UTC - 16:52 UTC.
### What happened:
Real device tests in US West hung and failed to output test artifacts due to slow uploads.
### Why it happened:
A degraded interconnect link suffered high packet loss from optical errors, but BGP stayed up, preventing automatic failover to healthy paths.
### How we fixed it:
Manually disabled the degraded port on the edge router, forcing traffic onto healthy alternate interconnects.
### What we are doing to prevent it from happening again:
Automating link draining based on CRC error thresholds, improving protocols for isolating flapping vendor links, and hardening upload resilience.
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