Outage report · Partial outage
Brex outage on Oct 20, 2026
Unable to deliver SMS to Orange in France
What happened
Brex reported a partial outage starting Oct 20, 2026, 15:55 UTC. It was marked resolved at Oct 30, 2026, 16:51 UTC.
- The incident lasted 10d from first report to resolution.
- It was the longest significant outage Brex reported in the 12 months up to it.
- Brex had reported 9 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 Brex
Twilio has confirmed that the carriers removed the unintentional blocked placed on business numbers on the morning of Oct 28. We've confirmed against our logs that SMS to French phone numbers is fully restored and functional.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of Brex started after this incident, so this report is based on Brex's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.
Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.
Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.
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Brex's overall reliability
Brex has a reliability score of 40.0/100, with 97.69% effective uptime and 9 incidents over the last 90 days.
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