Rippling outage, January 2026: Issue with automatic agent installation after MDM enrollment

Rippling reported and resolved an incident: Issue with automatic agent installation after MDM enrollment. It lasted 29 hours.

Resolved

From Rippling's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
29 hours
Impact
major
  1. Investigating
  2. Identifiednot posted
  3. Monitoringnot posted
  4. Resolved

Why it happened

Rippling has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

How it was resolved

On the morning of Jan 26, we saw cases where the Rippling agent did not automatically install after MDM enrollment. We found the root cause and fixed the issue. It is now resolved.

Rippling's closing update

This incident on the Rippling status page

Timeline

Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Rippling's official status page, in their words.

  1. resolved

    On the morning of Jan 26, we saw cases where the Rippling agent did not automatically install after MDM enrollment. We found the root cause and fixed the issue. It is now resolved.

What this means for a business (and what to check now)

  • Retry anything that failed during the 29 hours.
  • 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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