Outage in Azure Devops

Availability Degradation in Central US

Resolved Minor

March 09, 2026 - Started about 5 hours ago - Lasted about 1 hour

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

Azure DevOps experienced a 1.4-hour availability degradation in Central US when a core services database became overloaded, causing failures and slowness across all major components including Boards, Repos, Pipelines, and Artifacts. Users reported extremely slow performance, loading failures, and permission issues during the incident. Engineers resolved the issue by performing database failover and upscaling operations.

Our engineers are currently investigating an event impacting Azure DevOps. The event is being triaged and we will post an update as soon as we know more.

Components affected

Azure Devops Core services Azure Devops United States Azure Devops Boards Azure Devops United States Azure Devops Repos Azure Devops United States Azure Devops Pipelines Azure Devops United States Azure Devops Artifacts Azure Devops United States Azure Devops Other services Azure Devops United States

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UPDATE

Our engineers are currently investigating an event where one of the databases of our core services became overloaded which caused failures and slowness to propagate to the rest of our services.
We are currently performing failover and database upscale in order to mitigate the issue.

UPDATE

Our engineers are currently investigating an event impacting Azure DevOps. The event is being triaged and we will post an update as soon as we know more.

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