SIP call failures

highElevenLabsJul 31, 2026 03:10
computeapirouting
Network / RoutingCapacity IssueAPI Issue

Summary

After our recent mitigation steps, our engineers have traced SIP call failure rate as it has returned to baseline. We will publish a complete root cause analysis shortly.

Impact

major

Timeline

Jul 31, 2026 03:08

[investigating] Starting at ~1:00 UTC, calls to a portion of phone numbers imported into the ElevenLabs Agent Platform are failing. We are currently working to isolate the root cause and restore full functionality.

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+52m
Jul 31, 2026 04:00

[identified] We've identified a likely contributing factor related to infrastructure resource constraints affecting SIP call routing. We're currently validating a fix.

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+1h 29m
Jul 31, 2026 05:29

[resolved] The issue has been resolved. Call routing is now fully restored, and we're assessing follow-ups to improve proactive alerting and prevent recurrence.

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+49m
Jul 31, 2026 06:18

[investigating] Following the earlier fix, we're seeing renewed inbound call routing failures for a portion of phone numbers. We're currently investigating.

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+2h 49m
Jul 31, 2026 09:06

[identified] Our team has identified a potential cause of the call outages and is currently validating a fix. We will share further updates as soon as we have more information.

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+2h 3m
Jul 31, 2026 11:10

[identified] Our team is actively working to add additional logging to our systems and identify the root cause of the issue. In the meantime, the immediate workaround is to remove the affected number and re-add it, if possible.

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+1h 51m
Jul 31, 2026 13:01

[identified] Our team is still actively working to restore all calls and phone numbers to their normal working state.

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+25m
Jul 31, 2026 13:26

[identified] We have identified the root cause of the failed SIP calls and prepared a fix.

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+1h 7m
Jul 31, 2026 14:33

[identified] Calls should be back to normal for the EU and India residencies. The US residency may still experience some downtime, but our team is working to resolve the issue.

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+3h 29m
Jul 31, 2026 18:02

[identified] Our engineers are putting together a targeted fix to resolve the remaining SIP failures in the US region.

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+1h 12m
Jul 31, 2026 19:15

[resolved] After our recent mitigation steps, our engineers have traced SIP call failure rate as it has returned to baseline. We will publish a complete root cause analysis shortly.

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Lessons Learned

ElevenLabs has experienced 54 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to compute, api, routing have occurred 935 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: Network / Routing, Capacity Issue, API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.