Upstart outage on 28 September 2026
Major outageAn email when it goes down, and when it’s back.
“Rate Check Errors”
On 28 September, Upstart had a major outage in which applicants saw elevated errors when checking their rate on upstart.com. The incident was open from 18:14 to 23:27 UTC (5 h 13 min), but the status page reported a fix at 18:31 and showed upstart.com affected only between 18:14 and 18:31. Bluesky, Procore, Cursor, Wattpad, Amplitude, GitHub and Bling also reported problems during the same period.
Upstart’s own incident page ↗- When
- 18:14–23:27 UTC
- How long
- 5 h 13 min
- Incident open on its page
- 18:14–23:27 UTC
- Components affected
- 1
- Upstart, 30 days before
- No other outages
What broke when
From Upstart’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
And 159 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- upstart.com: partial outage
- Fix in place, monitoring
- upstart.com: back to normal
- Resolved
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads Upstart’s official status page at status.upstart.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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