Outage report · Partial outage

WP Engine outage on Oct 15, 2026

522 Errors

SeverityPartial outage
StartedOct 15, 2026, 10:45UTC
ResolvedOct 20, 2026, 10:57UTC
Duration5d

What happened

WP Engine reported a partial outage starting Oct 15, 2026, 10:45 UTC, affecting North America. It was marked resolved at Oct 20, 2026, 10:57 UTC.

  • The incident lasted 5d from first report to resolution.
  • It was the longest significant outage WP Engine reported in the 12 months up to it.
  • WP Engine had reported 2 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 WP Engine

This issue is now resolved. Please reach out to our live chat should further assistance be needed.

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What our independent monitoring saw

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

Other outages around the same time

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

WP Engine's overall reliability

30.5/100

WP Engine has a reliability score of 30.5/100, with 95.37% effective uptime and 20 incidents over the last 90 days.

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