Resolved · lasted 5 h
Stack Exchange outage on October 3
Reports for Stack Exchange jumped to 82 an hour and stayed high for 5 h.
- Started
- 2:00 PM
- October 3, 2026 · UTC
- Back to normal
- 7:00 PM
- 5 h later
- Peak
- 82/hr
- 82× normal
- Stack Exchange’s incident
- 38 h 39 min
- Stack Exchange Network is down
Reports during the outage
12:00 PM8:50 PM UTC
What Stack Exchange said
www.stackstatus.netResolved10/3/2026, 1:23 PM – 10/5/2026, 4:02 AM · 38 h 39 min
Stack Exchange Network is down
- Resolved · 4:02 AM
Sites are back up and stable
- Investigating · 3:27 AM
We're investigating the network outage.
- Resolved · 6:53 PM
Everything seems stable.
- Monitoring · 6:29 PM
Sites are back up and operational.
- Investigating · 4:09 PM
Stack Exchange network sites are down.
Stack Exchange posted its first update 2 h 10 min after reports started rising.
What people said
- ~Bengaluru, IN · 6:31 PM
HTTP 503 for german.stackexchange.com, scrambled content for rus.stackexchange.com as well as stackexchange.com
1 comments during the outage
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