Mailgun outage, April 2026: Elevated Timeouts for Validations
Mailgun reported and resolved an incident: Elevated Timeouts for Validations. It lasted 29 minutes.
OKResolved
From Mailgun's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 29 minutes
- Impact
- minor
- Affected
- Email Validation
- Investigating
- Identified
- Monitoring
- Resolved
Why it happened
Mailgun has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.
How it was resolved
Mailgun marked it resolved at 18 Apr 2026, 3:15 am without a written explanation of the fix.
Timeline
Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Mailgun's official status page, in their words.
- identified
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- monitoring
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- resolved
This incident has been resolved.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 29 minutes.
- 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.
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