Live status & reliability report

Mailgun status, outages & reliability

#7 of 12 transactional email APIsOperational

Mailgun is an email sending API and SMTP service owned by Sinch.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 90 days Mailgun had 99.84% effective uptime across 10 status page incidents (3 partial or major outages), resolving them in 1h 43m on average.

83.2/100Reliability scoreVisit Mailgun ↗

Is Mailgun down right now?

No, Mailgun is up and running.

  • Mailgun's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
  • All 3 Mailgun pages we check are responding. Checked .

Official Mailgun status page ↗

Uptime (90d)99.84%3h 22m weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)102.0 per 30 days
Major / partial outages3
Avg time to resolve1h 43m
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 4, 2026 – Aug 10, 2026: no incidentsAug 11, 2026: 96.69% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 12, 2026 – Aug 19, 2026: no incidentsAug 20, 2026: 99.24% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 21, 2026 – Aug 26, 2026: no incidentsAug 27, 2026: 97.41% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 28, 2026 – Aug 30, 2026: no incidentsAug 31, 2026: 95.47% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 1, 2026 – Sep 3, 2026: no incidentsSep 4, 2026: 98.81% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage)Sep 5, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026: no incidentsSep 14, 2026: 99.39% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 15, 2026 – Sep 29, 2026: no incidentsSep 30, 2026: 99.55% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 1, 2026 – Oct 27, 2026: no incidentsOct 28, 2026: 99.33% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.843% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
  • Degraded
  • Partial outage
  • Major outage
  • No data

Key facts about Mailgun's reliability

  • Over the past 12 months, Mailgun published 32 incidents on its status page, 10 of them partial or major outages.
  • Its longest outage on record in that time was “Delayed sending in EU” on May 25, 2026, which lasted 3h 37m.
  • The part of Mailgun most often affected was Events & Logs (14 of 32 incidents).
  • Mailgun reported 10 incidents in the last 90 days, down from 11 in the 90 days before.
  • Incidents most often began on a Friday (9 of 32, UTC).
  • Mailgun's 90-day uptime of 99.84% is above the average for transactional email APIs (99.77%).
  • It resolves incidents faster than the typical transactional email API: 1h 43m on average, against a median of 2h.

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
84
99.844% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
61
2.00 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
87
1h 43m average
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

02468DecJan ’261 partial outage incident1Feb2 partial outage incidents2Mar1 partial outage incident2 degraded performance incidents3Apr1 major outage incident1 degraded performance incident2May5 degraded performance incidents1 informational incident6Jun1 major outage incident1 partial outage incident1 degraded performance incident3Jul1 major outage incident1 partial outage incident2 degraded performance incidents1 informational incident5Aug1 major outage incident2 degraded performance incidents1 informational incident4Sep1 degraded performance incident1OctNov
  • Major outage
  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

Daily average response time of Mailgun's public pages, measured by our probes.

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

Score trend

Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

Mailgun incident history (last 90 days)

Source: Mailgun status page · last checked · Subscribe via RSS

Our independent monitoring

We check these public Mailgun pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
LoginUp 100%513 ms
AppUp 100%489 ms
Sending API (US, unauthenticated)Up 100%479 ms

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Mailgun status FAQ

Is Mailgun down right now?

No, Mailgun is up and running. Mailgun's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 3 of the Mailgun pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.

How reliable is Mailgun?

Mailgun has a reliability score of 83.2 out of 100, ranking #7 of 12 transactional email APIs. Over the last 90 days it had 99.84% effective uptime.

How often does Mailgun have outages?

Mailgun published 10 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (3 partial or major outages) and 32 in the past 12 months.

How long do Mailgun outages last?

Mailgun resolves incidents in 1h 43m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 3h 37m, on May 25, 2026.

Does Mailgun have a status page?

Yes. Mailgun's official status page is status.mailgun.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.