Incident

BLS (Labor Statistics) outage.

ResolvedDEGRADATION · HIGH

Aug 5, 2026, 02:38 PM · about 21 hours ago · Duration: 53min

Detected by Probecast

Incident Summary

Incident Summary

API BLS (Labor Statistics) is currently DOWN in us-west.

Diagnostic Details

Error Type: timeout HTTP Status: N/A Error Message: Request timeout after 10000ms Retry Attempts: 3 (all failed)

Validation Results

Validation Reason: All 3 retry attempts failed Consecutive DOWN Checks: 2 Time Between Checks: 297s

Cross-Region Impact

Also DOWN in: europe, us-east Total Affected Regions: 3

Severity Assessment

Level: HIGH Multiple regions affected or critical error type detected.


Detected by Probecast Health Monitor - 2026-08-05T14:38:50.138Z

Timeline

Started

Aug 5, 2026, 02:38 PM

about 21 hours ago

Resolved

Aug 5, 2026, 03:32 PM

about 20 hours ago

Duration

53min

Total downtime

Evidence Logs5 checks

TimeRegionStatusLatencyCode
Aug 5, 02:38 PMus-westdown10000ms
Aug 5, 02:33 PMus-eastdown10001ms
Aug 5, 02:33 PMeuropedown10001ms

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