Outage report · Major outage

Gusto outage on Dec 16, 2025

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SeverityMajor outage
StartedDec 16, 2025, 18:16UTC
ResolvedDec 16, 2025, 20:57UTC
Duration2h 40m

What happened

Gusto reported a major outage starting Dec 16, 2025, 18:16 UTC, affecting Gusto.com website, Payroll, Benefits, HR, Gusto Mobile, API. It was marked resolved at Dec 16, 2025, 20:57 UTC.

  • The incident lasted 2h 40m from first report to resolution.
  • It was the longest significant outage Gusto reported in the 12 months up to it.
  • Gusto had reported 2 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
  • 5 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Gusto

This incident has been resolved.

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What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of Gusto started after this incident, so this report is based on Gusto's status page.

Other outages around the same time

Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.

Gusto's overall reliability

100.0/100

Gusto has a reliability score of 100.0/100, with 100% effective uptime and 0 incidents over the last 90 days.

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