Tailscale incident: Coordination server issues

1. resolvedJul 8, 2026, 10:26 UTC

   This incident has been resolved. The authentication failures were due to a service becoming unreachable, and we have worked to restore the service. Approximately 1 in 10 requests between 08:40 and 10:00 UTC were affected, and the issue in this period was intermittent.

2. investigatingJul 8, 2026, 09:50 UTC

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

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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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