Linear outage history

Biggest Linear outages

Ranked by the official impact level, then by how long they lasted. Each has its own page with the cause, the fix time and every official update.

1. Sep 27, 2026: EU sync failure 1 hour 6 min · rated "Critical"
2. May 28, 2026: Linear not loading for some users 56 minutes · rated "Critical"
3. May 28, 2026: Asks Email Intake failing 31 minutes · rated "Critical"
4. Jun 22, 2026: Some customers experiencing issues with Linear loading and syncing 2 hours 48 min · rated "Major"
5. Jul 16, 2026: Some customers are seeing issues with Linear loading 1 hour 33 min · rated "Major"
6. Jun 30, 2026: App not loading for some users in India 1 hour 32 min · rated "Major"
7. May 14, 2026: Degraded Slack integration performance 1 hour 7 min · rated "Major"

Every smaller Linear incident

Minor and short incidents from the Linear status page, newest first, each with a line from the official updates. Times are UTC.

September 2026

• Sep 5, 2026, 15:17 UTC · Degraded performance in US region workspaces

  56 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Normal levels of operation has been fully restored. Incident is now resolved and closed."

• Sep 1, 2026, 10:27 UTC · Increased failures and latency for Android push notifications

  1 hour 56 min · rated "Minor"

  "Normal functionality has resumed."

August 2026

• Aug 19, 2026, 15:26 UTC · Delayed actions for Linear agent and loops automations

  16 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Automated actions, including Loop automations and Linear Agent responses, are now processing normally. We're taking steps to help prevent this from recurring."

• Aug 12, 2026, 16:01 UTC · Documentation site failing to load

  2 minutes · marked as no impact

  "Documentation site now loads after refreshing."

• Aug 10, 2026, 03:54 UTC · Codex integration sessions failing to start

  4 days 14 hours · marked as no impact

  "The connection between Linear and OpenAI was failing and has now been rectified."

June 2026

• Jun 22, 2026, 10:27 UTC · EU sync delays for some workspaces

  33 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Some users with EU-hosted workspaces experienced delays syncing changes for a short period of time this morning. Sync performance has returned to normal, and the issue is resolved. Thank you for your patience while we worked on this."

• Jun 17, 2026, 22:52 UTC · Increased latency while using Linear

  25 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "The increased latency has been resolved, and Linear should be operating normally again. We rolled back the query change that caused the slowdown and have confirmed performance has recovered."

• Jun 17, 2026, 17:05 UTC · Some users may experience errors loading code diffs

  2 hours 59 min · rated "Minor"

  "This issue has been resolved, and the Reviews experience is functioning normally - thank you for your patience. If you continue to see any trouble, please reach out to support@linear.app and we'll take a look!"

• Jun 16, 2026, 15:05 UTC · Some customers seeing delays

  6 hours 50 min · rated "Minor"

  "The delays affecting agent responses and other workflows have been resolved. We're sorry for the disruption."

• Jun 15, 2026, 10:58 UTC · Problems with right-clicking or opening context menus on issues

  5 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We've identified the problem and deployed a fix. You may need to refresh (⌘+R / CTRL+R) to get the latest changes."

• Jun 9, 2026, 17:08 UTC · Partial Linear outage

  40 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "This incident has been resolved, and Linear is operating normally across all regions. We rolled back the affected services and have confirmed that error rates remain normal. We apologize for the disruption."

• Jun 4, 2026, 12:49 UTC · In-App Contact Form experiencing issues

  2 hours 20 min · rated "Minor"

  "We've resolved the issue affecting submissions through our in-app contact form, and new support requests are being received successfully again."

• Jun 3, 2026, 14:07 UTC · Linear Agent code intelligence tools failing to run

  12 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Normal functionality has resumed to the Linear Agent's coding intelligence features."

May 2026

• May 31, 2026, 18:49 UTC · Delays affecting event processing in our US region

  1 hour 14 min · marked as no impact

  "We've resolved the delays that were affecting updates for some workspaces hosted in our US region, and service should now be operating normally. We hit an unexpected condition in our event processing that caused the system to back up."

• May 25, 2026, 13:27 UTC · Resolved - Delayed background processing for some users in EU region

  duration not stated · marked as no impact

  "Task processing in our EU region was briefly delayed from 12:45 to 13:05 UTC after capacity scaled down too far, which slowed some background actions from completing normally. We scaled capacity back up and processing has recovered."

• May 22, 2026, 08:34 UTC · Resolved: Degraded search quality for some US workspaces

  duration not stated · marked as no impact

  "Earlier today, some US customers may have seen degraded or incomplete search results for a number of hours. This issue has now been resolved, and search should be working normally again."

• May 19, 2026, 04:02 UTC · Investigating delays in background processing

  54 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We've resolved the issue that caused delays in background task processing and search indexing. Systems are now operating normally again."

• May 18, 2026, 21:43 UTC · Errors affecting workspaces using cycles

  14 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "As noted, an internal migration related to ongoing performance and tech-debt improvements caused errors affecting customers using cycles. Our team identified and reverted the issue quickly, and service has now fully recovered."