# Replit — May 18 Replit downtime

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-05-20T00:30:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/may-18-replit-downtime
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18185-may-18-replit-downtime
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit experienced a two-hour outage on May 18 caused by a deadlock from a leaked read-lock and a configuration change that triggered a write-lock. The rollback process was delayed, and the autoscaler reduced capacity due to missing signals. The root cause was fixed, and Replit is implementing staggered deployments, improved health checks, and disaster recovery training.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://replit.com/blog/may-18-replit-downtime:

> Yesterday, we had a period of about 2h from 11:45 to 13:56 (Pacific Time) in which all users were unable to access their Repls through the site. We have addressed the root cause, and the system is now operating normally.

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