Outage report · Partial outage

Zendesk outage on Sep 21, 2026

Outbound email delivery failures to some mail providers

SeverityPartial outage
StartedSep 21, 2026, 07:50UTC
ResolvedSep 21, 2026, 14:30UTC
Duration6h 40m

What happened

Zendesk reported a partial outage starting Sep 21, 2026, 07:50 UTC, affecting Support, Email. It was marked resolved at Sep 21, 2026, 14:30 UTC.

  • The incident lasted 6h 40m from first report to resolution.
  • It was the longest significant outage Zendesk reported in the 12 months up to it.
  • Zendesk had reported 6 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
  • 6 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

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What our independent monitoring saw

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

Other outages around the same time

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

Zendesk's overall reliability

51.7/100

Zendesk has a reliability score of 51.7/100, with 98.85% effective uptime and 13 incidents over the last 90 days.

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