Outage report · Major outage

Wire outage on Jan 28, 2026

Partial Outage of WebSocket connections

SeverityMajor outage
StartedJan 28, 2026, 09:00UTC
ResolvedJan 28, 2026, 18:00UTC
Duration9h

What happened

Wire reported a major outage starting Jan 28, 2026, 09:00 UTC. It was marked resolved at Jan 28, 2026, 18:00 UTC.

  • The incident lasted 9h from first report to resolution.
  • It was the 2nd longest of 3 significant outages Wire reported in the 12 months up to it.
  • Wire had reported no other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
  • 3 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Wire

Service availability for **[app.wire.com](http://app.wire.com/)** and the Wire Desktop App has been restored. Please reload your browser or restart your desktop client to ensure you are running the latest version (**2026-01-28-production.1**).

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What our independent monitoring saw

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

Other outages around the same time

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

Wire's overall reliability

99.6/100

Wire has a reliability score of 99.6/100, with 100% effective uptime and 1 incidents over the last 90 days.

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