WP Engine outage on Oct 19, 2026

What happened

WP Engine reported a partial outage starting Oct 19, 2026, 15:12 UTC, affecting Chat Support. It was marked resolved at Oct 19, 2026, 21:00 UTC.

• The incident lasted 5h 48m from first report to resolution.
• It was the 3rd longest of 4 significant outages WP Engine reported in the 12 months up to it.
• WP Engine had reported 3 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
• 10 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Read WP Engine's official incident report ↗

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.

• Partial outageSendcloudOct 19, 2026, 07:36 UTC

  [Third Party Issue] Correos Express - Label announcement issues

• Partial outageSendcloudOct 19, 2026, 09:52 UTC

  [Third-Party] Lettre Suivie - Label announcement issue

• Partial outageGrafana CloudOct 19, 2026, 15:06 UTC

  Metrics: Evelvated Read and Ruler Errors.

• Major outageGitHub ActionsOct 19, 2026, 15:49 UTC

  Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks

• Major outageGitHubOct 19, 2026, 15:49 UTC

  Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks

• Major outageRhoOct 19, 2026, 18:12 UTC

  Card Swipes and Payments are down

• Major outageTeachableOct 19, 2026, 18:21 UTC

  Checkout Unavailable - Teachable Payments

• Partial outageMewsOct 19, 2026, 19:00 UTC

  Downgraded Performance - Delayed emails

• Major outageSentryOct 19, 2026, 20:39 UTC

  Sentry is down

• Partial outageDialpadOct 20, 2026, 01:44 UTC

  Some customers may be experiencing issues making or receiving calls.

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