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Convex outage: Small percentage of deployments experiencing outage

Convex reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Apr 9, 2026, 05:42 UTC. It was resolved after 43 min.

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Apr 9, 2026, 05:42 UTC
started
Apr 9, 2026, 06:24 UTC
resolved
43 min
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • Business
  • Free & Starter
  • Professional
  1. resolvedApr 9, 2026, 06:24 UTC

    This issue is considered resolved. Impact: A small percentage of Convex deployments experienced sporadic availability for approximately 17 minutes, from 22:42 to 22:59 PM PT. Root cause: one of our database clusters experienced a routine primary failover event. During the primary promotion process, the orchestration system failed to provision a replica that was ready to accept new database writes. Out of an abundance of caution, Convex will only use database clusters that support semi-sync replication, where at least two machines persist the writes before considering the write successful. Since the replicas were not ready, this cluster was not usable by Convex. Human operators were paged to intervene and fix the broken automation. We're working with our database partners to better understand what went wrong and what changes will prevent it in the future.

  2. monitoringApr 9, 2026, 05:59 UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. investigatingApr 9, 2026, 05:42 UTC

    Seems related to a problematic database failover. Updates soon.

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Convex outage on Apr 9, 2026: Small percentage of deployments experiencing outage · APIStatus.watch