Stripe: API call success rate drop

Stripe's status page listed this on 23 Sept 2026. Lasted 2.3 h, filed against Stripe API and Stripe core components. This is their record, not a measurement of ours.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Lasted2.3 h
What failedStripe API and Stripe core components
Their impactNotice

Regions: their page does not say which. Ours checks from three cities, and the screen we saw is on our own incident pages, where there is one.

What Stripe said

On their page: API call success rate drop

Stripe's status page: “We're currently investigating an issue affecting API accounts and capability call success rates. We've identified the root cause and are working on a mitigation. We will post further updates as we have more information.”Identified
Stripe's status page: “API error rates are recovering as part of our mitigations. We're continuing to monitor until the issue is fully resolved. We will provide further updates once we have observed sustained recovery.”Monitoring
Stripe's status page: “From 19:13 to 22:19 UTC, we saw elevated error rates and response times with the API. This is now resolved.”Resolved

Their incident page

What our own check saw

Nothing of ours failed that day, or we were not checking Stripe yet.

Every incident, ours and theirs

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