Major incident
WorkOS: Elevated Platform Errors
Jul 16, 2026, 08:26 UTC
started
10:44 UTC
resolved
2 h 18 min
duration
Affected: Dashboard, SSO, Admin Portal, Directory Sync, Audit Logs, AuthKit
Current status of WorkOS: Operational — live WorkOS status
Timeline
- Jul 16, 2026, 08:26 UTCinvestigatingWe are seeing elevated error rates across our platform. Our team is investigating. We will share an update as soon as possible.
- Jul 16, 2026, 09:25 UTCinvestigatingWe continue to investigate elevated error rates across our platform. We will share an update as soon as possible.
- Jul 16, 2026, 09:58 UTCinvestigatingWe continue to investigate elevated error rates across our platform.
- Jul 16, 2026, 10:11 UTCidentifiedWe've identified the cause of the elevated platform errors. We've implemented a fix and are seeing error rates decrease.
- Jul 16, 2026, 10:30 UTCmonitoringWe have deployed the fix and we are now monitoring our systems to ensure the issue is resolved.
- Jul 16, 2026, 10:44 UTCresolvedThis incident is resolved. We experienced elevated error rates and latencies between 8am and 10:10am UTC. We will deliver a full postmortem as soon as possible.
- Jul 17, 2026, 23:51 UTCpostmortemWe’ve published a [post-mortem on the July 16 service disruption](https://workos.com/blog/service-disruption-on-july-16-2026) to our blog, detailing what happened and how we’re strengthening the resiliency of WorkOS products.
Updates as published by WorkOS (original).
Other services with incidents at the same time
This was part of a wider event: 42 services reported incidents within the hour.
- Porter 09:25 UTC · Authentication issues
- RevenueCat 09:13 UTC · Some users unable to login via single-sign-on (SSO)
- Kameleoon 09:02 UTC · Intermittent Slowness and Instability on Kameleoon Platform (app.kameleoon.com)
- MIT 09:00 UTC · Instructure
- Rippling 09:00 UTC · Access denied
- Poool 08:59 UTC · Engage Backend Issues
- Plaid 08:48 UTC · Elevated dashboard.plaid.com error rates
- Weglot 08:43 UTC · Issues affecting login with SAML
- DataCamp 08:42 UTC · Loading issues across the platform
- Ashby 08:40 UTC · Some SSO sign-ins may fail
- Vercel 08:39 UTC · SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) errors
- Blackboard 08:33 UTC · Blackboard SaaS LMS Outage - Global
- Scalapay 08:31 UTC · Elevated Errors
- FusionAuth 08:29 UTC · Investigating outage affecting multiple regions
- Synthesia 08:27 UTC · Login Issues
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