What Happened
Stripe experienced an outage on August 15, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 1 hour 35 minutes.
Payment processing platform for internet businesses with APIs for accepting payments, managing subscriptions, and handling financial operations.
Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 06:04 | Monitoring | As of 05:42 UTC, elevated error rates and response times with Mastercard payments have began to recover. Stripe teams will continue to monitor until fully resolved. |
| 05:25 | Identified | We're currently seeing elevated error rates and response times with Mastercard payments. We have confirmed the outage is external to the Stripe infrastructure. |
| 04:49 | Investigating | We're currently investigating elevated error rates and response times with Mastercard payments. We'll post an update soon. |
| 06:27 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 1 hour 35 minutes. Stripe runs on AWS — check those status pages if you experienced cascading issues.
Resolution
Stripe has recovered and is now operational.
What To Do Next
- View Stripe live status and outage history
- Set up alerts to get notified instantly next time Stripe has an issue
- Compare Stripe reliability with other services
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