Resolved · lasted 5 h
Blackboard outage on August 19
Reports for Blackboard jumped to 459 an hour and stayed high for 5 h.
- Started
- 8:00 PM
- August 19, 2026 · UTC
- Back to normal
- 1:00 AM
- 5 h later
- Peak
- 459/hr
- 230× normal
- Blackboard’s incident
- 46 h 56 min
- Blackboard Service Interruption
Reports during the outage
What Blackboard said
status.blackboard.comBlackboard Service Interruption
- Resolved · 9:06 PM
Blackboard continues to monitor the underlying services to ensure ongoing stability.
- Monitoring · 2:28 PM
Blackboard continues to monitor the underlying services to ensure ongoing stability.
- Monitoring · 9:46 PM
The affected services remain stable. Blackboard continues to monitor the underlying services to ensure ongoing stability. The next update will be provided by Tomorrow ( Friday) Morning.
- Monitoring · 1:41 PM
The affected services remain stable. Blackboard continues to monitor the underlying services to ensure ongoing stability. The next update will be provided by close of business.
- Monitoring · 9:09 AM
The affected services have been restored and remain stable. Blackboard continues to monitor the underlying services to ensure ongoing stability.
- Monitoring · 6:52 AM
The affected services have been restored and remain stable. Blackboard continues to monitor the underlying services to ensure ongoing stability.
- Monitoring · 4:40 AM
Services have been restored. Blackboard is continuing to monitor these underlying services.
- Monitoring · 3:36 AM
The issue has been identified, and the affected services have been restored. Blackboard is continuing to monitor these underlying services. Updates will continue to be posted on status.blackboard.com until this incident is resolved.
- Monitoring · 2:38 AM
The issue has been identified, and the affected services have been restored. Blackboard is continuing to monitor these underlying services. Updates will continue to be posted on status.blackboard.com until this incident is resolved.
- Identified · 1:40 AM
The issue has been identified, and Blackboard is working to restart and restore services. There may continue to be instability while we work to ensure all services are fully recovered. Next update to status.blackboard.com will be in 1 hour
- Investigating · 1:17 AM
Blackboard is continuing to work directly with our infrastructure partners to diagnose and resolve the issue. We will continue to post updates to status.blackboard.com
- Investigating · 12:06 AM
Blackboard is continuing to work directly with our infrastructure partners to diagnose and resolve the issue. We will continue to post updates to status.blackboard.com
- Investigating · 11:10 PM
Update: Adjusting scope from "Blackboard - SaaS - Global" to "Blackboard - SaaS (US)"
- Investigating · 10:48 PM
We are continuing to investigate the issue and are actively working with Blackboard's infrastructure partners to diagnose and resolve the issue as quickly as we can. We will continue to provide updates at status.blackboard.com
- Investigating · 10:10 PM
Blackboard is currently investigating a service disruption affecting a number of customers. We are investigating increased error rates related to a storage system impacting a group of clients deployed on Blackboard LMS in US East. Additional updates will be posted to status.blackboard.com
Blackboard posted its first update 2 h 10 min after reports started rising.
What people said
- Nick9:39 PM
Can’t get into site
1 comments during the outage
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