Alpaca experienced a major incident on October 19, 2026 affecting Account API and Orders API, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Account APIOrders API
Update timeline
- resolved Oct 19, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC
From 6:15 PM to 6:22 PM ET, some API requests experienced elevated timeouts. Most affected requests were retried successfully. The issue is resolved, and all services have been operating normally since.