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ParentSquare outage on 22 October 2026

Major outage
Resolved · 00:51–03:36 UTC
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“Attendance notifications not sent for some Aeries-integrated schools”

On 22 October, ParentSquare reported a major outage affecting its Data Sync component, which kept attendance notifications from being sent for some schools that use Aeries; the incident ran from 00:51 to 03:36 UTC, 2 h 45 min. According to the status page, an outage at its data provider Aeries stopped the notices for a shorter window of about 40 minutes, and the affected notices were later resent to families. Musixmatch, Alura, OpenAI, npm and Notion also reported problems during the same period.

ParentSquare’s own incident page ↗
When
00:51–03:36 UTC
How long
2 h 45 min
Incident open on its page
00:50–03:35 UTC
Components affected
1
ParentSquare, 30 days before
1 other outage

What broke when

Major outage
Partial outage
Degraded
Data Sync
UTC 01:0002:0003:00

From ParentSquare’s own status page: when it moved each component into trouble, and back.

At the same time

Started in the hour before or during it

UTC 01:0002:0003:00

And 150 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.

Timeline

Times in UTC

  1. Investigating
  2. Data Sync: partial outage
  3. Resolved
  4. Data Sync: back to normal

Where this comes from

Stackpulse reads ParentSquare’s official status page at status.parentsquare.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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