Okta outage, 12 November 2026
Service Disruption on Email Delivery
- Started
- Status
- Ongoing: Monitoring
- Impact
- Major
- Affected
- MFA
Is this still happening?
Yes. Okta still lists it as monitoring; last update 13 Nov 2026, 20:27 UTC.
Right now: Okta reports a partial outage. (as of 13 Nov, 20:53 UTC) Live Okta status
At a glance
- Okta rated this a major incident (partial outage).
- Half of the 56 resolved Okta incidents we recorded were fixed within 2 h.
- Okta had 5 other incidents in the 30 days before it.
- 5 earlier incidents look like the same kind of problem (same affected part or wording); the most recent was on 28 Oct 2026.
Our summary from the Okta incidents we have recorded since 3 Oct 2024 - how we count.
Last update from Okta
The third-party provider reports that its infrastructure is stabilizing. The provider is now working through a backlog of queued messages and balancing traffic across its systems. While sign-in and access to its services may improve first, message delivery will take longer to catch up. Email sent from Okta to affected addresses may therefore still arrive late, and messages that were held up may be delivered once the backlog clears. The provider has not yet shared a time for full recovery. Until delivery returns to normal, please continue using backup verification methods where possible. We are closely following the provider's progress and Okta's delivery and will post another update when we...
Similar Okta incidents
Earlier incidents with the same affected part or wording - useful to see how long this kind of problem usually takes.
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, resolved after 32 h 28 min
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, resolved after 5 h 4 min
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, resolved after 6 h
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, resolved after 8 h 55 min
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, resolved after 19 h
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