Fly.io incident
Slow image pulls delaying Machine starts in IAD
Resolved after 1 h 29 min.
- Started
- Ended
- Worst state
- Degraded
- On Fly.io’s status page
- Source
- Components
- Deployments, IAD - Ashburn, Virginia (US)
Timeline
- Fly.io status page · Reported Slow image pulls delaying Machine starts in IAD
- Fly.io status page · Investigating We are investigating slow image pulls within Fly Machines in IAD. Newly created or updated Machines are taking longer to start, which may cause deployments to time out. Machines start successfully after the delay. Consider creating Machines in alternate regions, if possible, or running fly deploy --wait-timeout 10m to give Machines up to 10 minutes to prepare images and start.
- Site Qwality checks · Degraded Official status: Slow image pulls delaying Machine starts in IAD
- Fly.io status page · Identified We have identified the cause of the issue and are working on a fix.
- Fly.io status page · Monitoring We have implemented a fix and are monitoring results.
- Fly.io status page · Resolved Image pull times in IAD have returned to normal.
- Site Qwality checks · Operational Checks clean again
Cite this incident
Site Qwality, “Slow image pulls delaying Machine starts in IAD,” Oct 30, 2026, https://siteqwality.com/is-fly-io-down/incidents/fly-io-202610302025/
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