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Upstash incident: QStash EU Region — Degraded Performance

Upstash reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Jun 23, 2026, 16:22 UTC. It was resolved after 52 min.

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Jun 23, 2026, 16:22 UTC
started
Jun 23, 2026, 17:14 UTC
resolved
52 min
duration
Minor
impact

Affected components

  • EU-CENTRAL-1
  1. postmortemJun 24, 2026, 12:28 UTC

    ### **Summary** On June 23, 2026, QStash users in the EU-CENTRAL-1 region experienced elevated latency and degraded performance. The issue was caused by a regression introduced in a recent enhancement to Flow Control scheduling logic. The change increased resource consumption under load, leading to reduced performance on affected shards. The incident was resolved by rolling back to the previous stable version. ### **Impact** * Service: QStash \(EU-CENTRAL-1\) * Start: 2026-06-23 16:22 UTC * Resolved: 2026-06-23 17:14 UTC * Duration: ~52 minutes * Impact: Increased latency and degraded performance for workloads routed to the affected instance in the EU. Multiple customers in the region experienced slower request processing during the incident window. ### **Root Cause** We recently deployed an enhancement to our Flow Control feature, designed to improve fairness between independent flow controls when unused global parallelism capacity was available. Under production load, the new b

  2. resolvedJun 23, 2026, 17:14 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  3. monitoringJun 23, 2026, 16:32 UTC

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

  4. investigatingJun 23, 2026, 16:22 UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

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Upstash incident on Jun 23, 2026: QStash EU Region — Degraded Performance · APIStatus.watch