Okta outage, 22 January 2026
Email Delivery Issues
- Started
- Resolved
- 23 Jan 2026, 03:50 UTC (after 8 h 55 min)
- Impact
- Minor
- Affected
- Core Platform
Is this still happening?
No. Okta marked this incident resolved on 23 Jan 2026, 03:50 UTC, 8 h 55 min after it began.
Right now: Okta reports degraded performance on some systems. (as of 30 Oct, 12:08 UTC) Live Okta status
Last update from Okta
Following is the RCA summary for a recent incident where a third-party provider or downstream service experienced an issue that impacted the Okta service Timing: Incident start: January 22, 2026, at 10:55 AM PST Incident resolved: January 22, 202,6 at 7:50 PM PST Detection: The issue was initially identified through customer reports that they were not receiving expected email notifications. Okta Engineering confirmed the service disruption after internal monitoring indicated a high volume of deferred email delivery attempts to specific third-party domains. Impact: Customers across all Okta cells with email addresses hosted by Microsoft Exchange Online may have experienced intermittent delays...
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