Upstash outage: Fly.io Upstash Redis service distruption (FRA region)

1. postmortemMay 15, 2026, 12:49 UTC

   On May 12th and 13th at various times, a subset of Upstash Redis instances on [Fly.io](http://Fly.io) experienced intermittent hangs and elevated error rates. The Redis process would stall inside a logging syscall — alive but not making progress — which made the issue hard to spot from our usual telemetry. After investigating with Fly's team, we identified the root cause as a bad interaction between a recent guest kernel update on Fly's newer machines and an upstream Cloud Hypervisor bug \([cloud-hypervisor#7672](https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/issues/7672)\) affecting log writes from inside the VM. We mitigated by disabling the affected logging paths, and Fly has since rolled out a hypervisor-side patch, fully resolving the issue. No data was lost. Sorry for the disruption.

2. resolvedMay 11, 2026, 18:22 UTC

   The incident has been resolved. We are working with Fly team on RCA.

3. investigatingMay 11, 2026, 17:19 UTC

   We are working with Fly team to investigate the root cause.

4. investigatingMay 11, 2026, 15:07 UTC

   We are continuing to investigate the issue.

5. investigatingMay 11, 2026, 15:05 UTC

   Some databases may experience increased latency or timeouts in Fly.io’s FRA region.

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