Azure DevOps Outage History

Azure DevOps pipelines experienced global queuing delays affecting Hosted/Managed Pipeline Agents across multiple regions, causing builds to queue or stall. The issue began at Feb 2, 2026 7:59 PM UTC with an initial warning of potential queuing delays, escalated to global queuing delays for Hosted/Managed Agents, and was resolved by Feb 3, 2026 1:29 AM UTC. The outage lasted approximately 5 hours and 30 minutes and impacted 9 components including United States / Pipelines, Europe / Pipelines, India / Pipelines, Canada / Pipelines, Brazil / Pipelines, United Kingdom / Pipelines, Asia Pacific / Pipelines, Australia / Pipelines, and Asia Pacific / Artifacts. The Azure DevOps status page issued four updates during the incident as engineers worked to mitigate the issue. Users reported builds failing, queuing, and being unable to start across multiple regions.

Azure DevOps experienced an availability degradation affecting the United States / Test Plans component. The outage began at Jan 27, 2026 4:24 PM UTC and was resolved by Jan 27, 2026 5:59 PM UTC, lasting about 1 hour 35 minutes. The status page indicated engineers were investigating and triaging the issue, with a follow-up update confirming restoration of service. The incident included two official status updates on the page.

The degradation was limited to the United States region and primarily impacted Test Plans functionality. Users relying on Azure DevOps Test Plans may have experienced intermittent access or degraded performance during the window. The provider posted timely status updates describing the triage and resolution steps as the incident progressed.

Azure DevOps experienced a brief Availability Degradation impacting the United States / Artifacts component. The outage began at 9:30 PM UTC and was resolved by 9:44 PM UTC, lasting about 14 minutes. The issue was being investigated and triaged during the incident, with status updates posted by the Azure DevOps status page; two updates were issued. There were no user reports during the event, and the impact appeared localized to the United States region, with services returning to normal after the incident.

Azure DevOps experienced brief degradation in the Europe / Other services region. The outage began at 9:19 AM UTC and was resolved by 10:04 AM UTC, lasting about 45 minutes. The Azure DevOps status page acknowledged availability degradation and posted two updates as engineers investigated and triaged the issue. The impact was limited to Europe / Other services; service was back to normal after the incident.

Azure DevOps experienced an availability degradation starting at Jan 7, 2026 12:54 PM UTC, impacting United States components: Pipelines, Boards, Repos, and Test Plans. Users in the US reported degraded operations affecting CI/CD workflows, project boards updates, repository actions, and test plan interactions during the incident. The issue persisted until Jan 7, 2026 7:19 PM UTC, lasting approximately 6 hours and 25 minutes. The Azure DevOps status page posted two updates during the incident, with services returning to up after the final update.

Azure DevOps experienced a brief availability degradation affecting the United States / Other services component. The incident began at Jan 6, 2026 5:29 PM UTC and service was restored by Jan 6, 2026 6:54 PM UTC, lasting approximately 1 hour 25 minutes. The Azure DevOps status page indicated Availability Degradation and that engineers were triaging the event, with the United States / Other services component returning to up status after the issue was resolved. The provider issued 2 status updates during the incident.