Is Steel down? › Outage history
Steel outage history
Steel published 8 incidents on its official status page since Aug 4, 2026. None was major or long enough for its own page. Below them is every smaller incident, then our own 90 day check history.
Every smaller Steel incident
Minor and short incidents from the Steel status page, newest first, each with a line from the official updates. Times are UTC.
October 2026
Oct 2, 2026, 01:00 UTC · Session creations are failing
1 hour 55 min · rated "Degraded"
"We have successfully rolled out the fix out across the affected fleet. Session connectivity and error rates have returned to normal."
September 2026
Sep 25, 2026, 14:29 UTC · Intermittent live streaming and recording issues
6 hours 50 min · rated "Degraded"
"We rolled out an update a few hours ago, and live streaming and recording have remained stable since. We'll continue to monitor things closely to make sure everything remains healthy."
Sep 23, 2026, 19:18 UTC · Dealing with streaming issues
1 hour 47 min · rated "Degraded"
"We've pushed out a fix and these issues should be resolved now. `headless` is still facing a couple issues but we will follow up with updates there shortly."
Sep 16, 2026, 18:41 UTC · Custom (BYOP) HTTPS proxies failing for some customers
2 hours 18 min · rated "Degraded"
"All connections should be functioning properly again."
Sep 4, 2026, 23:46 UTC · Our edge gateway is having issues with all requests
7 minutes · rated "Degraded"
"We've pushed out a fix/patch; but it turns out this was a longer blip from one of our upstream providers. We'll be working on workarounds for this going forward."
Sep 4, 2026, 14:27 UTC · Facing a higher error rate of session creates
3 minutes · rated "Degraded"
"We've pushed a fix and are monitoring the situation."
August 2026
Aug 23, 2026, 07:10 UTC · Facing Capacity Issues / Errors creating sessions
5 hours 41 min · rated "Degraded"
"We've scaled up our capacity and creates should be handled smoothly."
Aug 4, 2026, 20:15 UTC · WS connections are facing issues
10 minutes · rated "Degraded"
"we've pushed a patch and WS connections should be up again."
Steel uptime, last 90 days
Tracked since Oct 7, 2026. Updated Oct 22, 2026, 12:35 UTC.
Every Steel problem in the last 90 days
- Maintenance
Main API: maintenance
Oct 16, 2026, 22:00 UTC · lasted 4 hours 32 min · from Steel's official status page
- Maintenance
Main API: maintenance
Oct 16, 2026, 16:38 UTC · lasted 4 hours 2 min · from Steel's official status page
Day by day
| Day (UTC) | Uptime | Avg response | Worst |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 2026 | 100% | 267 ms | Up |
| Oct 21, 2026 | 100% | 486 ms | Up |
| Oct 20, 2026 | 100% | 388 ms | Up |
| Oct 19, 2026 | 100% | 437 ms | Up |
| Oct 18, 2026 | 100% | 438 ms | Up |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 100% | 477 ms | Maintenance |
| Oct 16, 2026 | 100% | 855 ms | Maintenance |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 100% | 917 ms | Up |
| Oct 14, 2026 | 100% | 895 ms | Up |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 100% | 900 ms | Up |
| Oct 12, 2026 | 100% | 1036 ms | Up |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 100% | 828 ms | Up |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 100% | 465 ms | Up |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 100% | 364 ms | Up |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 100% | 452 ms | Up |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 100% | 409 ms | Up |
Steel outage questions
Was Steel down today?
No. We recorded no Steel outage, degraded period or maintenance today (Oct 22, 2026, UTC).
Was Steel down yesterday?
No. We recorded no Steel outage, degraded period or maintenance yesterday (Oct 21, 2026, UTC).
When was Steel last down?
The latest problem was on Oct 16, 2026, 22:00 UTC and lasted 4 hours 32 min: Main API: maintenance.
How often does Steel go down?
Steel's status page posted 8 incidents since Aug 4, 2026, 3 of them in the last 30 days. Most incidents affect part of the service, not all of it. Uptime from our own checks over the last 90 days: 100%.
Times are UTC. Official incidents are the company's own posts, quoted from the Steel status page. Problem periods start when the official status page or our checks first show a problem and end when the service is next found working, so durations are accurate to within a few minutes. Recent outages across all services.