Stripe: Elevated API errors

Stripe's status page listed this on 1 Oct 2026. Lasted 25 min, filed against Stripe API. This is their record, not a measurement of ours.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Lasted25 min
What failedStripe API
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: Elevated API errors

Stripe's status page: “We're currently investigating elevated error rates and response times with the API. We'll post an update soon.”Investigating
Stripe's status page: “From 02:24–02:27 UTC, we saw a brief increase in HTTP 5XX processing errors. 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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