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Canva outage on 8 October 2026

Major outage
Resolved · 16:43–17:29 UTC
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On 8 October, Canva had a major outage from 16:43 to 17:29 UTC (46 minutes), during which some users had trouble creating designs from templates on the home page. Canva's status page opened the incident at 16:42 and marked it resolved at 17:20, nine minutes before the outage ended, saying a fix had landed. GitLab, ElevenLabs and Blackboard also reported major outages at the same time.

Canva’s own incident page ↗
When
16:43–17:29 UTC
How long
46 min
Incident open on its page
16:42–17:20 UTC
Canva, 30 days before
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Timeline

Times in UTC

  1. Investigating
  2. Resolved

Where this comes from

Stackpulse reads Canva’s official status page at www.canvastatus.com every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.

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