Outage report · Partial outage
Buffer outage on Oct 1, 2026
Issue with publishing to Mastodon accounts hosted on mastodon.social and mastodon.online
What happened
Buffer reported a partial outage starting Oct 1, 2026, 10:11 UTC, affecting Publishing, Channel connections, Mastodon. It was marked resolved at Oct 1, 2026, 12:37 UTC.
- The incident lasted 2h 26m from first report to resolution.
- Buffer had reported 9 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 12 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from Buffer
The issue with Mastodon has been resolved, and their servers are performing normally. If you have experienced failed posts during this time, please click **Retry Now** on each one to try publishing them again. We appreciate your understanding and apologise for any disruption this may have caused.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of Buffer started after this incident, so this report is based on Buffer's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
Buffer's overall reliability
Buffer has a reliability score of 58.8/100, with 99.23% effective uptime and 21 incidents over the last 90 days.
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