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🟡 Tempo stopped accepting writes in prod-us-east-3 since 18:50 UTC. Users getting the full error experience while engineers play forensics with their infrastructure. Nothing says 'observability platform' like being unable to observe your own metrics. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Apr 10, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Tempo Write Outage

// Status page says

Apr 10 , 19:42 UTC Investigating - We are currently investigating a write outage affecting prod-us-east-3. The issue began at 18:50 UTC. Users may experience errors, timeouts, or unavailability while we work to identify the cause and restore service.

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.grafana.com/incidents/80yc5t3fwf8c

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