Bitly Outage History

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There were 3 Bitly outages since February 12, 2026 totaling 177h 15m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.bitly.com

Critical April 25, 2026

Major Service Outage - Bitly.com Website Unavailable

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 25, 2026, 11:04 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 25, 2026, 11:10 PM UTC
Duration
6m
Affected: Website (Bitly.com)
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 25, 2026, 11:04 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating reports of a major service outage impacting the Bitly website (bitly.com). Our on-call team is working to identify and resolve this issue. We will provide an update within 30 minutes.

  2. monitoring Apr 25, 2026, 11:06 PM UTC

    We are seeing recovery from an issue that was affecting the availability of bitly.com. We will continue to monitor.

  3. resolved Apr 25, 2026, 11:10 PM UTC

    The incident affecting availability of bitly.com has been resolved and the website is fully operational.

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Notice March 16, 2026

Partial Outage Impacting Pricing and Packaging

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 16, 2026, 07:42 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 16, 2026, 08:20 PM UTC
Duration
37m
Affected: Website (Bitly.com)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Mar 16, 2026, 07:42 PM UTC

    We are currently experiencing an issue with our 3rd party provider that is resulting in a partial degradation of services relating to pricing and packaging. We continue to monitor the situation.

  2. resolved Mar 16, 2026, 08:20 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified and resolved. We will continue to monitor.

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Minor February 12, 2026

Intermittent Provider Issues

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 12, 2026, 05:49 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 20, 2026, 02:21 AM UTC
Duration
7d 8h
Affected: Bit.ly Redirects
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. monitoring Feb 12, 2026, 05:49 PM UTC

    We have received reports of intermittent DNS resolution issues on bit.ly due to residual caching from a recent provider outage. These issues should dissipate over the next several hours. We continue to monitor the situation. Note that while you may see interruptions in connections your audience may not.

  2. monitoring Feb 17, 2026, 12:40 AM UTC

    We continue to monitor this issue with several ISPs showing resolution. If you are encountering this issue, we would appreciate knowing what ISP (Internet Service Provider) you are on when you report the issue. We are working with affected ISPs to get the erroneous DNS entries cleared from their residual cache layers.

  3. monitoring Feb 20, 2026, 12:34 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved at the root cause layer for several days, and it seems that residual DNS cache layers have now cleared.

  4. resolved Feb 20, 2026, 02:21 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →

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