Bland AI outage, 19 October 2026
Inbound calls failing to connect
- Started
- Resolved
- 19 Oct 2026, 16:54 UTC (after 9 min)
- Impact
- Major
- Affected
- API
Is this still happening?
No. Bland AI marked this incident resolved on 19 Oct 2026, 16:54 UTC, 9 min after it began.
Right now: Bland AI reports all systems operational. (as of 26 Oct, 03:47 UTC) Live Bland AI status
Last update from Bland AI
**Summary** On October 19, 2026, from 9:45 to 9:53 AM PT, many inbound calls to Bland phone numbers in our US region failed to connect. From about 9:30 AM PT, inbound calls also took longer than normal to connect. Inbound calls have connected normally since 9:54 AM PT. **What happened** Our primary US database slowed down while it ran required maintenance on several of its largest tables during morning peak traffic. At the same time, long-running queries and a background job tied up database connections. To answer an inbound call, our servers look up the number's configuration in the database. Those lookups took longer than our telephony layer allows, so calls were rejected. Engineers...
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