Major incident

Alpaca: Brief API Timeouts

Oct 19, 2026, 23:43 UTC
started
23:43 UTC
resolved
<1 min
duration

Affected: Account API, Orders API

Current status of Alpaca: Operational — live Alpaca status

Timeline

  1. Oct 19, 2026, 23:43 UTC
    resolved
    From 6:15 PM to 6:22 PM ET, some API requests experienced elevated timeouts. Most affected requests were retried successfully. The issue is resolved, and all services have been operating normally since.

Updates as published by Alpaca (original).

Other services with incidents at the same time

More Alpaca incidents