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WorkOS

workos.comStatus page: status.workos.comNow: operational since 2026-10-17
165incidents since 2020-07-17
88major or critical
24in the last 90 days
0silently edited or deleted

Recent notable changes

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Radar SMS challenge failures for phone numbers in mainland China (+86)
WorkOS reported a major Radar SMS challenge outage for mainland China (+86), preventing affected users from receiving codes or completing verification. It started at 2026-10-15 17:17 UTC and was resolved at 2026-10-15 21:51 UTC, lasting 4 h 34 min; WorkOS reported recovery after its upstream provider enabled alternate delivery routes.
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Major incident: Elevated API Errors
WorkOS reported a major outage affecting authentication and other API requests, causing failed sign-ins, errors, timeouts, and delays. The incident started at 2026-09-18 22:49 UTC and lasted 39 min; WorkOS said remediations restored services. The postmortem separately reports customer impact from 22:40 to 23:03 UTC (23 minutes), with authentication most severely affected.
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Major incident: Elevated Admin Portal Errors
WorkOS reported a major incident affecting Admin Portal link loading for customers without custom domains, starting at 2026-09-14 19:08 UTC and resolved at 2026-09-14 20:00 UTC (51 min). WorkOS reported a fix at 19:16 UTC and monitored before resolution; no cause was stated.
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Major incident: Form POST failures for some Authkit customers
WorkOS reported a major AuthKit incident affecting form POSTs for roughly 2% of organizations using hosted Authkit custom domains, disrupting sign-in. It started at 2026-09-09 21:00 UTC and was resolved at 2026-09-09 23:02 UTC (reported duration: 2 h 1 min). WorkOS reverted the configuration change responsible and later reported shipping lasting fixes.
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Major incident: Static asset delivery failures
WorkOS reported a major AuthKit and Core Services - AuthKit outage affecting static asset delivery to end users with strict network allowlists. It started at 2026-09-02 16:39 UTC and was resolved at 2026-09-02 19:06 UTC, lasting 2 h 26 min. WorkOS mitigated the issue and confirmed delivery rates had recovered.
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Major incident: Dashboard sign-in errors
WorkOS reported a major Dashboard sign-in outage that could prevent users from authenticating, starting 2026-08-25 17:35 UTC and resolved at 2026-08-25 18:41 UTC, with a computed duration of 1 h 5 min. A fix was applied at 17:41 UTC and confirmed to have resolved elevated sign-in errors at 17:54 UTC.
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Major incident: Elevated Authkit SSO Errors
WorkOS reported a major AuthKit SSO incident causing elevated errors and sign-on redirect loops for a small subset of customers; standalone SSO was unaffected. It started at 2026-07-31 16:12 UTC and resolved at 2026-07-31 18:06 UTC, lasting 1 h 53 min. A fix was deployed at 17:10 UTC.
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Major incident: Continued email delivery errors
WorkOS reported a major incident involving email delivery errors and Dashboard email delivery statuses not updating. It started at 2026-07-27 14:10 UTC and was resolved at 2026-07-27 17:37 UTC, lasting 3 h 27 min. WorkOS reported remediation restored delivery rates and Dashboard status updates; no cause was stated.
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Major incident: Elevated errors during email delivery
WorkOS reported a major email-delivery degradation starting 2026-07-27 10:05 UTC and resolved at 2026-07-27 13:04 UTC, lasting 2 h 58 min. An initial mitigation did not fully resolve the elevated errors; WorkOS applied a refined mitigation and confirmed delivery rates had recovered.
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Major incident: AuthKit SSO failures
WorkOS reported a major incident involving SSO failures for AuthKit customers, starting at 2026-07-21 21:21 UTC and resolved at 2026-07-21 21:54 UTC, lasting 32 min. WorkOS said it identified and fixed the issue and AuthKit SSO fully recovered; no cause was stated.
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Status incident history

WorkOS status incidents per year
010203040↑ incidents202020212022202320242025202610131918243249
Grey: all non-maintenance incidents. Orange: major or critical. Years before Oct 2026 come from the vendor’s own status history.
Data table
YearIncidentsMajor/critical
2020106
2021136
2022196
2023188
20242416
20253223
20264923
Incidents per month, last 36 months
By impact as reported by the vendor. Maintenance excluded.
Data table
MonthImpactIncidents
2023-10major1
2023-11none1
2023-12major1
2024-01major1
2024-02major2
2024-03critical2
2024-03major1
2024-03minor1
2024-05major4
2024-07major1
2024-07none1
2024-08major1
2024-09major1
2024-09minor1
2024-09none1
2024-10major1
2024-10minor1
2024-11minor1
2024-11none1
2024-12critical1
2024-12major1
2024-12none1
2025-01critical1
2025-01minor1
2025-02major2
2025-02none1
2025-03major2
2025-04major2
2025-04minor1
2025-05major2
2025-06critical2
2025-07critical1
2025-07major4
2025-08major1
2025-08minor1
2025-09minor2
2025-10critical2
2025-10major1
2025-10none1
2025-11minor1
2025-11none1
2025-12critical1
2025-12major2
2026-01major2
2026-01minor1
2026-02major1
2026-03major1
2026-03minor1
2026-04major1
2026-04minor2
2026-05major4
2026-05minor2
2026-05none3
2026-06major2
2026-06none2
2026-07major6
2026-07minor4
2026-07none1
2026-08major1
2026-08minor3
2026-08none4
2026-09major4
2026-10major1
2026-10minor2
2026-10none1

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Incident timeline

Latest 100 of 165 incidents. Full list: last 90 days · JSON · Markdown

Started (UTC)IncidentImpactDuration
Radar SMS challenge failures for phone numbers in mainland China (+86)major4.6 h
Elevated errors across SSO and AuthKit sign-innone-176 min
Elevated errors for Audit Logsminor42 min
Elevated API and AuthKit errors for some requests (Columbus, OH region)minor0 min
Elevated API Errorsmajor40 min
Elevated Admin Portal Errorsmajor52 min
Form POST failures for some Authkit customersmajor2.0 h
Static asset delivery failuresmajor2.5 h
Degraded outbound email deliveryminor35 min
Degraded Vault pages in Dashboardnone16 min
Dashboard sign-in errorsmajor1.1 h
Elevated errors on AuthKit authentication endpointsnone-1094 min
Delayed Email Deliverabilityminor44 h
Delayed Email Deliverabilitynone31 min
Intermittent Dashboard sign-in errorsminor1.4 h
Webhook Telemetry Issuenone24 min
Elevated Authkit SSO Errorsmajor1.9 h
Delayed Email Deliverabilityminor1.4 h
Webhook Delivery Delaysminor2.1 h
Continued email delivery errorsmajor3.5 h
Elevated errors during email deliverymajor3.0 h
Email Delivery Delaysminor1.3 h
AuthKit SSO failuresmajor33 min
Elevated Webhook Latencyminor51 min
Email delivery delaysmajor15 min
Elevated Platform Errorsmajor2.3 h
Elevated error rates for standalone MFA requestsnone1.2 h
Degraded performance for Directory Provisioning for Authkitmajor2 d
Elevated API Errorsnone4.0 h
SSO Request Latencynone0 min
Email delivery delaysmajor1.4 h
Elevated Events API Errorsminor16 min
Dashboard and Docs unavailablenone29 min
Webhook delivery delaysmajor17 min
OIDC Errorsminor2 min
Emails being delivered with empty copymajor1.3 h
Elevated Webhook Latencymajor41 min
Dashboard login errorsnone10 min
Webhook delivery delayedmajor3.0 h
Elevated Dashboard Errorsnone0 min
Email Delivery Delaysminor1.4 h
SSO API Latency Degradation Caused by Transient Capacity Constraintsmajor1 min
Increased 429 Errors on /directory_users endpointminor2.3 h
Elevated Dashboard Errorsminor1.3 h
Elevated API Errorsmajor18 min
Elevated API Errorsmajor1.1 h
Elevated Error Ratesmajor45 min
Degraded Email Delivery to Microsoft Outlook Inboxesminor16 h
Delayed Webhook Deliveriesmajor18 h
Degraded AuthKit Behaviormajor1.8 h
Elevated Error Ratescritical35 min
Impersonation via Dashboard unavailablemajor2.0 h
AuthKit authentication challenge issuesnone4.8 h
Authkit signup pages not appearing for some customersminor18 min
Authkit and Admin Portal Errorscritical7.3 h
Elevated API Errorscritical2.8 h
Increased webhook delivery delaynone1.5 h
Elevated API Errorsmajor41 min
Increased Webhook Delaysminor2.2 h
Elevated Webhook Delaysminor3.2 h
Degraded webhook deliveryminor49 min
Elevated Platform Errorsmajor2.4 h
Email Delivery Delayedmajor1.4 h
Unable to Login to Dashboardmajor1.1 h
Some API endpoints were erroneously rate-limitedmajor8 min
Google OAuth experiencing elevated errorsmajor13 min
Elevated Platform Error Ratescritical1.9 h
Elevated errors in AuthKit, Dashboard and SSOcritical37 min
Elevated errors in AuthKit, Admin Portal, Directory Sync, and SSOcritical2.9 h
Audit logs failing to load on Admin Portalmajor2.4 h
Increased error rates authenticating with AuthKitmajor35 h
Elevated AuthtKit redirect errorsminor7.0 h
Elevated errors authenticating with AuthKitmajor43 min
Webhook Delivery Delaysmajor3.5 h
Elevated AuthKit and Dashboard errorsmajor2 min
Increased errorsmajor9.0 h
Intermittent timeoutsnone5.5 h
Elevated Error Ratesmajor2.2 h
Increased API Latencymajor2.8 h
Elevated Error Ratescritical59 min
Issue with Magic Auth emails with new user invitationsminor2.5 h
Custom domain creation errorsnone16 h
Audit Logs Ingestion Issuesmajor3.4 h
Issues with AuthKitcritical9 min
Delay in Webhook deliveryminor2 min
SSL validation errors with authkit.app domainsnone25 min
Increased latencyminor1.9 h
"Invalid Signature" errors for some SAML connectionsmajor45 min
Issue with new SFTP Directory Sync connectionsminor1.0 h
Delay in Sending Emailsnone3.4 h
AuthKit, Admin Portal, WorkOS Dashboard Unavailablemajor20 min
Issue with WorkOS Dashboard, Admin Portal, AuthKit, Docsmajor55 min
Degraded Authkit Servicenone0 min
Degraded Authkit servicemajor20 min
Elevated Dashboard Errorsmajor17 min
Elevated Errors with Audit Logs and SSOmajor1.6 h
Some SSO connections incorrectly in validating statemajor0 min
SSO & Admin Portal Errors for Custom Domainsmajor1 min
Issues with Domain Aliasingcritical46 min
Elevated Error Ratesminor58 min