# 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 20 minutes, from 06:01 to 07:21 UTC. Litmus had one other outage in the three days before, and Musixmatch reported a minor issue with Merch at the same time, starting at 05:39 UTC.

- Service: [Litmus](https://stackpulse.app/services/litmus.md)
- Severity: major_outage
- Title on the status page: Partial System Outage
- Started: 2026-10-18 06:01 UTC
- Ended: 2026-10-18 07:21 UTC
- Lasted: 1 h 20 min
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/litmus/outages/2026-10-18-0601

## At the same time

- [Musixmatch](https://stackpulse.app/services/musixmatch.md): issue from 2026-10-18 05:39 UTC

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

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