# Litmus outage on 7 October 2026

> On 7 October, Litmus had a major outage, listed on its status page as a partial system outage, from 15:50 to 16:56 UTC, lasting 1 hour 5 minutes. The status page did not say why it happened, and it was the service's second outage in three days. GitHub, Cursor, OpenAI and GitLab also reported problems during the same period.

- Service: [Litmus](https://stackpulse.app/services/litmus.md)
- Severity: major_outage
- Title on the status page: Partial System Outage
- Started: 2026-10-07 15:50 UTC
- Ended: 2026-10-07 16:56 UTC
- Lasted: 1 h 5 min
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/litmus/outages/2026-10-07-1550

## At the same time

- [GitHub](https://stackpulse.app/services/github.md): critical from 2026-10-07 15:44 UTC
- [Cursor](https://stackpulse.app/services/cursor.md): issue from 2026-10-07 16:02 UTC
- [OpenAI](https://stackpulse.app/services/openai.md): issue from 2026-10-07 16:31 UTC
- [GitLab](https://stackpulse.app/services/gitlab.md): issue from 2026-10-07 16:53 UTC

Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.

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