Outage report · Partial outage

MongoDB Atlas outage on Aug 5, 2026

GCP capacity constraints affecting Atlas deployments

SeverityPartial outage
StartedAug 5, 2026, 05:17UTC
ResolvedAug 5, 2026, 12:14UTC
Duration6h 57m

What happened

MongoDB Atlas reported a partial outage starting Aug 5, 2026, 05:17 UTC, affecting MongoDB Cloud. It was marked resolved at Aug 5, 2026, 12:14 UTC.

  • The incident lasted 6h 57m from first report to resolution.
  • MongoDB Atlas had reported 3 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 MongoDB Atlas

We believe the symptoms of this have largely subsided, looking at both customer cases and our internal metrics. We will share any more information as we get it, but for now resolving this incident as Atlas is fully operational.

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.

MongoDB Atlas's overall reliability

49.4/100

MongoDB Atlas has a reliability score of 49.4/100, with 97.89% effective uptime and 11 incidents over the last 90 days.

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