MongoDB Atlas outage on May 7, 2026

What happened

MongoDB Atlas reported a partial outage starting May 7, 2026, 15:17 UTC, affecting MongoDB Atlas for Government. It was marked resolved at May 7, 2026, 22:15 UTC.

• The incident lasted 6h 58m from first report to resolution.
• MongoDB Atlas had reported 9 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 MongoDB Atlas

DNS updates for ACME are confirmed healthy. Cluster updates are now proceeding as expected.

Read MongoDB Atlas's official incident report ↗

What our independent monitoring saw

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

Other outages around the same time

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

• Major outageMeta Business SuiteMay 7, 2026, 05:58 UTC

  Inbox disruption

• Major outagePersonioMay 7, 2026, 09:36 UTC

  Global service outage

• Partial outageGoTo ConnectMay 7, 2026, 18:31 UTC

  GoTo Connect - Call Recording and Transcript

• Major outageDatadogMay 8, 2026, 00:06 UTC

  Delayed Monitors Notifications

• Partial outageCockroachDB CloudMay 8, 2026, 02:13 UTC

  Degraded performance in one AWS us-east-1 availability zone

MongoDB Atlas's overall reliability

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