Front outage on Oct 5, 2026

What happened

Front reported a partial outage starting Oct 5, 2026, 07:42 UTC, affecting SMTP (non-Gmail / O365). It was marked resolved at Oct 5, 2026, 09:45 UTC.

• The incident lasted 2h 3m from first report to resolution.
• Front had reported no other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
• 8 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Front

This incident has been resolved.

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What our independent monitoring saw

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

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