Zoom outage, October 2026: Service degradation affecting Zoom Meeting API in US region
Zoom reported and resolved an incident: Service degradation affecting Zoom Meeting API in US region. It lasted 6.8 hours.
OKResolved
From Zoom's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 6.8 hours
- Impact
- none
- Affected
- Zoom Meetings, Zoom Webinars
- Investigating
- Identifiednot posted
- Monitoring
- Resolved
Why it happened
Zoom has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.
How it was resolved
This incident has been resolved and the affected services have been restored.
Timeline
Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Zoom's official status page, in their words.
- monitoring
On 10/13/2026, Between 04:23 UTC to 09:14 UTC, Subset of users may have experienced issues with Zoom Meeting API in US region. This incident has been resolved and the affected services have been restored.
- resolved
This incident has been resolved and the affected services have been restored.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 6.8 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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