Tailscale Outage History

Users relying on Tailscale's DERP relay servers in Nuremberg, Germany, experienced degraded connectivity beginning at 2:12 PM UTC as DERP performance degraded. Official status messages indicated that DERP relay servers were impacted and that clients using those nodes may have faced connectivity issues while engineers investigated the DERP performance problems. By 3:48 PM UTC the DERP relays had recovered and service returned to normal, with users likely able to operate as usual again. The impact was regional to the Nuremberg DERP nodes and affected traffic routed through those relays.

During the incident, Tailscale's Funnel component experienced degraded performance and timeouts for users in some locations, causing intermittent issues for affected users. The issue was acknowledged by two official updates from Tailscale as it progressed, and traffic to Funnel was impacted during the incident window.

The incident began at Feb 27, 2026 11:33 AM UTC and was resolved at Feb 27, 2026 2:22 PM UTC, lasting approximately 2 hours and 49 minutes. The Funnel component was the sole affected area, and two status updates were issued detailing the degradation and subsequent recovery.

The Tailscale coordination service began experiencing slower responses at 9:58 AM UTC, causing delays in coordination tasks for some users. The impact was localized to the coordination service component, while other parts of the service remained functional. The outage lasted about 1 hour and 10 minutes and was resolved by 11:08 AM UTC. The provider issued two status updates during the incident to describe the slowdown and confirm recovery.

Tailscale reported degraded performance for Funnel endpoints, affecting Funnel-related functionality for some users. The incident began at 6:08 PM UTC and was resolved by 7:52 PM UTC, lasting 1 hour 44 minutes. The service's status page indicated Funnel performance degradation during the event and subsequent restoration as engineers worked to resolve the underlying issues.

Tailscale reported a brief degradation in the Funnel component, causing performance issues and timeouts for users in certain locations.

The incident began at Feb 24, 2026 3:08 PM UTC and was resolved by Feb 24, 2026 5:28 PM UTC, lasting about 2 hours and 20 minutes. The status page indicated engineers were investigating the issue and that Funnel was degraded during this window, before returning to normal.

The package server pkgs.tailscale.com experienced a brief degradation, causing increased latency and timeouts for some regions when downloading packages. The outage began on 12:33 PM UTC and was resolved by 1:27 PM UTC, lasting about 54 minutes.

Tailscale reported a brief degradation in the docs search on tailscale.com, causing searches not to return results. The affected components were the Homepage and Documentation. The outage began at 8:23 PM UTC and was resolved by 8:28 PM UTC, lasting about 5 minutes. Engineers were actively working to restore the search functionality during the incident. The status page indicated the issue was resolved and search functionality returned to normal.

The Tailscale coordination service experienced a brief degradation beginning at Feb 11, 2026 9:33 PM UTC. The issue affected the Coordination service, API (api.tailscale.com), and Admin console (login.tailscale.com), with users potentially seeing slower responses during the window. The outage lasted about 25 minutes and was resolved by Feb 11, 2026 9:58 PM UTC as all components returned to normal. The status updates indicated that the team was aware of the performance issues and was actively investigating, with restoration confirmed by the final update.

Tailscale experienced certificate creation issues that prevented issuing new certificates for MagicDNS hostnames, impacting manual certificate issuance and the deployment of new services via Tailscale Serve or Tailscale Funnel. Existing certificates and services already exposed by Serve or Funnel remained unaffected as long as current certificates stayed valid. The incident affected two components, Funnel and Certificates, which were listed as degraded during the event. The outage began at 5:37 PM UTC and was resolved by 7:28 PM UTC, lasting approximately 1 hour and 51 minutes. The Tailscale team issued 2 status updates during the incident.

An outage on February 9, 2026 affected Tailscale's ability to issue new certificates for MagicDNS hostnames, hindering manual certificate issuance and deployments through Tailscale Serve or Tailscale Funnel. Existing certificates and services remained unaffected as long as current certificates stayed valid. The issue began at 9:57 AM UTC and was resolved by 12:43 PM UTC, lasting about 2 hours and 46 minutes. The incident involved two official status updates during the event, and the affected components were Funnel and Certificates before returning to normal.