Is Asana API Down?

Incident: An internal system responsible for automatically scaling backend server capacity in one of our compute clusters stopped replacing capacity that had been cycled out during routine maintenance. This caused a gradual reduction in available capacity over several hours. A subsequent deployment was activated with insufficient capacity, causing all new requests for that compute cluster to fail. To mitigate the impact, we reverted to a previous release revision, which still had sufficient capacity. Impact: For approximately 30 minutes, customers whose traffic was handled by this compute cluster saw full downtime; other customers were unaffected. No customer data was lost. Moving forward: We have added additional monitoring to detect this type of capacity-scaling failure much earlier, and have added safeguards to prevent deployments from shifting traffic before sufficient healthy capacity is confirmed. _Our metric considers a weighted average of uptime experienced by users at each data center. The number of minutes of downtime shown reflects this weighted average._

We’ve been working to add a caching layer to our update pipeline, tuning it carefully and rolling it out gradually. On Wednesday, August 26 we enabled it for most use cases, and it initially performed well. On Monday, August 31, a combination of unrelated infrastructure changes and peak traffic pushed the cache past its scaling limits. Once that threshold was crossed, the cache became unusable, and many pods serving read traffic for the Asana application could no longer serve it. We mitigated the incident by reverting the system to use the previous, non-cached code path. The revert was successful, but recovery took longer than we would expect for this class of issue. A fuller analysis is underway. We will follow up with root causes, action items, and improvements, including why recovery took as long as it did. We were fully down for about 25% of our users, for 2 hours, 15 minutes.

From 2026-08-04 15:25 UTC until 2026-08-06 03:51 UTC, Asana failed to send some events to registered webhooks and to return them in the event streams API. Apps which rely on this should refetch the underlying data from the Asana API. Existing webhooks and event streams will continue to function, but events from the incident window will not be sent. Most events with type `task` and action `changed` were dropped during this period. Other events are not affected. The root cause of the incident was traced to a code change which unintentionally dropped change events for most fields on the task type, and the change was reverted.

**Incident**: A configuration change inadvertently removed a critical resource required by one of our services. While existing infrastructure continued to operate normally, newly scaled infrastructure could not become ready. As morning traffic increased, there was a growing gap between incoming requests and our system's capacity to handle them, resulting in service degradation. We resolved the issue by manually restoring the missing resource and correcting the configuration change that caused its removal. ‌ **Impact**: For approximately 1.5 hours, a subset of customers experienced a full outage of our web application and desktop applications. During this time, affected users were unable to access Asana. No customer data was lost. ‌ **Moving forward**: We are implementing additional safeguards in our configuration management process to prevent critical resources from being inadvertently removed. We are also enhancing our monitoring systems to detect degradation earlier, before it impacts customer access. ‌ Our metric considers a weighted average of uptime experienced by users at each data center. The number of minutes of downtime shown reflects this weighted average.

Starting on **April 20th, 2026 at 10:00 AM PDT**, a combination of scaled-up background action jobs in the EU and a recent change to how date time trigger volume is managed overloaded the system that processes resource intensive background action jobs. This caused multi-hour delays in email and inbox notifications in the EU and prevented date time triggers from executing in all regions. Engineers were first alerted on **April 21st** by our monitoring systems, but did not recognize the full scope of the incident until **April 23rd**. On April 23rd, the change to manage date time trigger volume was reverted and the problematic background action jobs were isolated. All delayed notifications were sent by **April 24th, 11:30 AM PDT**, and all delayed date time triggers were executed by **April 27th, 4:00 AM PDT**.