Lightspeed outage, October 2026: Restaurant O-Series: Brief API degradation
Lightspeed reported and resolved an incident: Restaurant O-Series: Brief API degradation. It lasted 1 minute.
OKResolved
From Lightspeed's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Impact
- none
Why it happened
Lightspeed has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.
Timeline
Newest first. From Lightspeed's official status page, in their words.
- resolved
Our team were alerted by a small group of customers that our API had some degradation between 5:17PM and 5:29PM AEDT. This has been isolated to a scaling issue and resolved, most online orders would have succeeded with a retry during this time.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 1 minute.
- Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
- If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.
The full guide: what to do when a service you rely on is down
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- Delayed Hospitality payout reporting, resolved after 5.1 hours
- Lightspeed Retail (R/C-Series) Latency or outage, resolved after 5.1 hours
- Slowness on C-Series webshops in Europe, resolved after 2.2 hours
- Statement on PHP vulnerabilities, resolved after 45.3 hours
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