Outage report · Partial outage
Buffer outage on Aug 9, 2026
Buffer Login Disruption
SeverityPartial outage
StartedAug 9, 2026, 22:00UTC
ResolvedAug 10, 2026, 04:52UTC
Duration6h 52m
What happened
Buffer reported a partial outage starting Aug 9, 2026, 22:00 UTC, affecting Login. It was marked resolved at Aug 10, 2026, 04:52 UTC.
- The incident lasted 6h 52m from first report to resolution.
- It was the 3rd longest of 9 significant outages Buffer reported in the 12 months up to it.
- Buffer had reported 3 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 2 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from Buffer
Things have remained stable following the fix, and we’re now marking this incident as fully resolved. Publishing success rates have returned to normal, and we’re no longer seeing reports of users being unexpectedly logged out. We’re sorry again for the disruption, and we appreciate your patience while our team worked to get things back to normal. Please reach out to us at hello@buffer.com if you're still experiencing issues.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of Buffer started after this incident, so this report is based on Buffer's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
Buffer's overall reliability
57.6/100
Buffer has a reliability score of 57.6/100, with 99.21% effective uptime and 23 incidents over the last 90 days.
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