Outage report · Partial outage
WP Engine outage on Oct 20, 2026
522 / SSH connection issues
What happened
WP Engine reported a partial outage starting Oct 20, 2026, 06:33 UTC, affecting Europe. It was marked resolved at Oct 21, 2026, 09:20 UTC.
- The incident lasted 1d 2h from first report to resolution.
- It was the 2nd longest of 4 significant outages WP Engine reported in the 12 months up to it.
- WP Engine had reported 4 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 WP Engine
This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of WP Engine started after this incident, so this report is based on WP Engine's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
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WP Engine's overall reliability
WP Engine has a reliability score of 30.5/100, with 95.37% effective uptime and 20 incidents over the last 90 days.
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