Outage report · Partial outage
Buffer outage on Nov 2, 2026
Issue with [Feature]
What happened
Buffer reported a partial outage starting Nov 2, 2026, 14:05 UTC. The incident is still open on the vendor's status page.
- Buffer had reported 8 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 8 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from Buffer
We’re investigating an issue with media processing that is affecting the "Publish Now" action. Our team is working to resolve it, and we’ll share more as we learn more. We’re sorry for the disruption and appreciate your patience.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our checks of Buffer's public login and customer-facing pages kept responding during this incident, so the problem was most likely inside the product (for example a specific feature, region or integration) rather than a full site outage.
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 57.2/100, with 99.15% effective uptime and 23 incidents over the last 90 days.
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