Tailscale Outage History

During the incident, new passkey signups via the Tailscale Admin Console (login.tailscale.com) failed, blocking new account creation. Existing sign-ins using passkeys remained functional, and no other authentication methods were affected.

The incident began at 10:47 AM UTC and was resolved by 1:18 PM UTC, lasting about 2 hours and 31 minutes. Tailscale listed the Admin Console as degraded during the outage and issued 2 status updates before returning to normal.

During the incident, Tailscale experienced degraded performance across the API (api.tailscale.com), the Coordination server, and the Admin Console (login.tailscale.com). The degradation began at Jan 16, 2026 9:08 PM UTC and lasted approximately 34 minutes, with services returning to normal by Jan 16, 2026 9:42 PM UTC. Users may have experienced slower responses or intermittent authentication issues during this window. The official status page attributed the issue to Coordination server performance problems and included two status updates as the situation evolved.

During a scheduled maintenance window, Tailscale experienced coordination server performance issues affecting a small number of tailnets. Some users were unable to access the admin console or perform actions relying on the coordination server, while others saw increased latency and errors. The incident began at Jan 15, 2026 9:22 AM UTC and was resolved by Jan 15, 2026 10:02 AM UTC, lasting about 40 minutes. The issue was communicated via the Tailscale status page, which listed planned maintenance and issued two updates as the incident progressed, with the coordination server status moving from up to warn and back to up as maintenance completed, with impact limited to the coordination server component.

During the incident, the Tailscale coordination server experienced degraded performance, causing slower coordination responses for some users. This affected three components: API (api.tailscale.com), Coordination server, and Admin console (login.tailscale.com). The outage began at Jan 13, 2026 4:03 PM UTC and was resolved by Jan 13, 2026 4:42 PM UTC, lasting 39 minutes. The provider issued 2 status updates during the incident to communicate the issue and recovery. Engineers were investigating and implemented a fix as part of the recovery.

The Tailscale coordination server experienced degraded performance starting at Jan 12, 2026 3:02 PM UTC and was resolved by Jan 12, 2026 4:52 PM UTC, lasting approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes. The issue appeared to affect a subset of users, with reports of slower coordination server responses. A report from Birmingham, England at 3:12 PM UTC corroborates the localized impact. The incident timeline included two official status updates from Tailscale: an initial alert documenting coordination server performance issues, followed by a later update indicating the service had returned to normal.

During a planned maintenance window, the Tailscale coordination server briefly affected a subset of tailnets, preventing access to the admin console and coordination-dependent actions for some users and causing increased latency for others. The issue began at Jan 5, 2026 12:17 PM UTC and was resolved by Jan 5, 2026 12:37 PM UTC, lasting about 20 minutes. The provider issued 2 status updates during the incident.

Tailscale experienced a partial outage in the Admin Console (login.tailscale.com) where external user invites were failing for some users. Existing invited users were not affected, so current access remained intact.

The incident began at Jan 1, 2026 5:42 PM UTC and was resolved by Jan 1, 2026 7:02 PM UTC, lasting about 1 hour and 20 minutes. The Admin Console component moved from warning to normal as the issue was resolved, and the status page issued two updates during the incident.

User reports were limited, including at least one report from Phoenix, Arizona describing no connection today. No broad regional pattern was evident from the available data.

An outage affected Tailscale's coordination server, API (api.tailscale.com), and Admin Console (login.tailscale.com), causing degraded performance and sign-in issues for a subset of users. The incident began at 10:37 PM UTC and was resolved by 11:52 PM UTC, lasting roughly 1 hour and 15 minutes. User reports described coordination server timeouts and sign-in problems during the window. The incident involved three components and was monitored via two status updates and user feedback. The provider published two updates during the incident, noting coordination server performance issues and later restoration as all components returned to normal by 11:52 PM UTC. Affected components included API, Coordination server, and Admin Console.

Tailscale experienced a short-lived disruption affecting the API (api.tailscale.com), Coordination server, and Admin console (login.tailscale.com). Users reported slow responses and issues connecting or managing their Tailnets, including an instance of being unable to add a device. The outage began on 10:07 PM UTC and was resolved by 10:22 PM UTC, lasting roughly 15 minutes. The provider issued two status updates during the incident, first noting a degraded coordination service and later confirming restoration. Reports came from multiple regions, including locations in the United States and Denmark, suggesting a broad, global impact.

Tailscale experienced a brief incident affecting the Coordination server, resulting in slowness or errors for some users. The issue began at Dec 24, 2025 6:32 AM UTC and was resolved by Dec 24, 2025 6:47 AM UTC, lasting about 15 minutes. The status page noted coordination server issues during the event, and services returned to normal after the incident with the Coordination server component restored.