LiveKit incident: Identified increased agent join latencies in eu-central

Affected components

• Europe Central - Cloud Agents

1. postmortemSep 8, 2026, 21:59 UTC

   **Root Cause** A configuration change introduced a formatting error in the startup settings for the server pools that run hosted agents in our eu-central region. Newly provisioned servers failed to start, so the region could not add capacity. Agents that were already running were unaffected, but new agent deployments, version rollouts, and automatic scale-ups were delayed or stuck pending until the change was reverted. **Timeline \(UTC\)** `2026-09-04 23:56` - Configuration change deployed. The error only affected newly provisioned servers, so there was no immediate impact. `2026-09-05 18:07` - New servers began failing to start. Impact begins, intermittent at first. `2026-09-05 22:23` - Our monitoring alerted us to agent deployments stuck pending and we began investigating. `2026-09-06 00:50` - We identified the malformed startup configuration and reverted the change. `2026-09-06 01:17` - New capacity provisioned successfully, all pending deployments recovered, and we val

2. resolvedSep 6, 2026, 01:12 UTC

   The mitigation was successful and users shouldn't notice any issues with join latencies or creating new agents. We will follow up as soon as possible with a postmortem.

3. monitoringSep 6, 2026, 00:24 UTC

   We have applied a mitigation and believe that symptoms should be improving. We will update again with confirmation as soon as possible.

4. identifiedSep 5, 2026, 23:36 UTC

   We have identified an issue with LiveKit Cloud hosted agents in eu-central. Existing agents in eu-central are facing scaling issues resulting in increased join latencies. Existing agents are still functional and can serve sessions normally, but they may be slower to join new sessions. Additionally, new agents cannot be created in this region. We are actively working on a mitigation to alleviate this issue. We will provide another update as soon as possible.

What APIStatus.watch saw

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