# Litmus outage on 18 October 2026

> On 18 October, Litmus had a major outage, which its status page called a partial system outage. It lasted 1 hour 4 minutes, from 00:56 to 02:00 UTC. Musixmatch also reported a minor issue with degraded merch from 01:34 UTC, at the same time.

- Service: [Litmus](https://stackpulse.app/services/litmus.md)
- Severity: major_outage
- Title on the status page: Partial System Outage
- Started: 2026-10-18 00:56 UTC
- Ended: 2026-10-18 02:00 UTC
- Lasted: 1 h 4 min
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/litmus/outages/2026-10-18-0056

## At the same time

- [Musixmatch](https://stackpulse.app/services/musixmatch.md): issue from 2026-10-18 01:34 UTC

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

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