Minor incident
Alpaca: Sandbox Latency
Oct 10, 2026, 21:38 UTC
started
22:21 UTC
resolved
43 min
duration
Current status of Alpaca: Operational — live Alpaca status
Timeline
- Oct 10, 2026, 21:38 UTCinvestigatingWe’re investigating an issue affecting some users in the sandbox environment. Requests to multiple services may be returning errors or failing to complete. Our teams are working to restore normal service and will provide another update as more information becomes available.
- Oct 10, 2026, 21:48 UTCmonitoringService has been restored for affected sandbox requests, and we’re monitoring performance to confirm stability.
- Oct 10, 2026, 22:21 UTCresolvedElevated latency affecting multiple sandbox services has been resolved. Service performance has returned to normal, and monitoring confirms recovery. Production services were not affected. We apologize for the disruption.
Updates as published by Alpaca (original).
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