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Tailscale outage: Coordination service issues

Tailscale reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 20, 2026, 00:58 UTC. It was resolved after 2h 24m.

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Aug 20, 2026, 00:58 UTC
started
Aug 20, 2026, 03:22 UTC
resolved
2h 24m
duration
Major
impact
  1. resolvedAug 20, 2026, 03:22 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringAug 20, 2026, 02:38 UTC

    A fix has been deployed and we are monitoring for any further problems.

  3. identifiedAug 20, 2026, 01:53 UTC

    We have identified the problem and are rolling out a fix.

  4. investigatingAug 20, 2026, 00:58 UTC

    We are investigating a problem causing an elevated rate of errors in our coordination service, and are working to understand the full impact of the problem.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Tailscale's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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Tailscale outage on Aug 20, 2026: Coordination service issues · APIStatus.watch