Ably outage, 1 October 2026

Elevated API Errors

Started
Resolved
1 Oct 2026, 16:03 UTC (after 27 min)
Impact
Major

Last update from Ably

On October 1, a distributed denial-of-service \(DDoS\) attack caused elevated token-request errors across all Ably Realtime regions for approximately six minutes and intermittent unavailability of [ably.com](http://ably.com). We restored token-request service by increasing capacity and added targeted traffic-blocking and rate-limiting rules to mitigate the attack. We are strengthening endpoint protection and reviewing our firewall controls to reduce the risk of recurrence.

1 Oct 2026, 17:20 UTC

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