Rippling outage, July 2026: Asynchronous job queue resulting in stale services

Rippling reported and resolved an incident: Asynchronous job queue resulting in stale services. It lasted 2.9 hours.

Resolved

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

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
2.9 hours
Impact
minor
Affected
Rippling App
  1. Investigating
  2. Identifiednot posted
  3. Monitoring
  4. Resolved

Why it happened

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

How it was resolved

Rippling marked it resolved at 28 July 2026, 3:17 pm without a written explanation of the fix.

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. monitoring

    To mitigate a previous incident, non-critical asynchronous tasks were paused on Monday, July 27 at 9:30a PT and re-enabled around 3:30p PT. We are still working through the task backlog, and some things across Rippling - like group membership - will be stale until the remaining jobs catch up.

  2. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

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

  • Retry anything that failed during the 2.9 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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