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Brex: Critical incident: Services failing to respond and timing out

Summary

Brex reported a critical outage affecting Dashboard, Partner API and Partner Integrations: database maintenance caused HTTP 500 errors and disrupted some card and transaction operations. Recorded from 2026-06-14 05:11 UTC to 2026-06-14 05:29 UTC (18 min), it was resolved after maintenance completed; failed API calls could be retried.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 69%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: Services failing to respond and timing out
AddedImpact#2
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After: critical
AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
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After: 2026-06-14 05:11 UTC
AddedResolved time#5
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After: 2026-06-14 05:29 UTC
AddedAffected components#6
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After: Dashboard, Partner API, Partner Integrations
AddedUpdatemonitoring#7
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After: Between 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM PT and 9:35 PM - 9:50 PM PT, a subset of requests to our API returned HTTP 500 errors due to database maintenance. During this window, some card and transaction operations were temporarily unavailable, which may have prevented the Dashboard from loading for some users.
AddedUpdateresolved#8
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After: The maintenance has been confirmed to be complete. Any failed API calls can be successfully retried and users should now be able to transact and see their cards and transactions.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Critical incident: Services failing to respond and timing out (this change)
Brex reported a critical outage affecting Dashboard, Partner API and Partner Integrations: database maintenance caused HTTP 500 errors and disrupted some card and transaction operations. Recorded from 2026-06-14 05:11 UTC to 2026-06-14 05:29 UTC (18 min), it was resolved after maintenance completed; failed API calls could be retried.
Major incident

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