LiveKit incident: Investigating reports of elevated RoomService API errors

1. investigatingOct 6, 2026, 00:56 UTC

   We have determined that the elevated API errors are isolated to cross-region traffic between US East and US Central. We will provide further details shortly.

2. investigatingOct 6, 2026, 00:10 UTC

   We are currently investigating reports of elevated errors affecting our RoomService API, beginning at 18:00 UTC. We will follow up with more details as soon as possible.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 6, 2026, 03:48 UTCoperational → degraded
• Oct 6, 2026, 04:53 UTCdegraded → operational

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