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Active incident: Bright Systems Unavailable

Bright is reporting a major outage right now (last checked 2h ago). 1 active incident on the official status page.

Real-time Bright status, recent outages, and incident history: pulled directly from Bright's official status page at status.brightsg.com every 5 minutes. Pingoru tracks 19 Bright services and has captured 22 incidents in the last 90 days (98.63% uptime). Get email, Slack, Discord, or webhook alerts the moment Bright reports a new incident, free for 3 monitors, no credit card.

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Active incident 1

  1. Ongoing ● 14h 59m
    Started Oct 21, 2026, 02:25 PM UTC
    BrightProposeBrightManagerBrightCoSecMyWorkpapers
    Timeline · 1 update
    • investigating · Oct 21, 2026, 02:25 PM UTC

      We are experiencing issues. The team is investigating and we will provide updates as soon as we have them.

    Latest: We are experiencing issues. The team is investigating and we will provide updates as soon as we have them.

Recent outages & incidents

Past 90 days
  1. Resolved 21m
    Started Oct 21, 2026, 10:43 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 21, 2026, 11:04 AM UTC
    BrightIDBrightHub
    Timeline · 2 updates
    • investigating · Oct 21, 2026, 10:43 AM UTC

      We have received alerts from the Hub, Authentication and Payslip services. The team is currently investigating

    • resolved · Oct 21, 2026, 11:04 AM UTC

      The team have concluded their investigation and the services are operating normally.

    Latest: The team have concluded their investigation and the services are operating normally.

  2. Resolved 22m
    Started Oct 02, 2026, 08:35 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 02, 2026, 08:57 AM UTC
    BrightManager
    Timeline · 2 updates
    • investigating · Oct 02, 2026, 08:35 AM UTC

      We're aware of an issue impacting BrightManager and are actively releasing a fix.

    • resolved · Oct 02, 2026, 08:57 AM UTC

      We have addressed the issue impacting BrightManager and are continuing to monitor

    Latest: We have addressed the issue impacting BrightManager and are continuing to monitor

  3. Resolved 31m
    Started Oct 02, 2026, 07:43 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 02, 2026, 08:14 AM UTC
    BrightPay
    Timeline · 2 updates
    • investigating · Oct 02, 2026, 07:43 AM UTC

      There are currently issues with making submissions to Nest. The team have identified the source of the problem and are working to resolve it.

    • resolved · Oct 02, 2026, 08:14 AM UTC

      The team have addressed the source of the problem and are monitoring the fix.

    Latest: The team have addressed the source of the problem and are monitoring the fix.

  4. Resolved –
    Started Sep 14, 2026, 03:50 PM UTC · Resolved Sep 14, 2026, 03:50 PM UTC
    BrightManager
    Timeline · 1 update
    • resolved · Sep 14, 2026, 03:50 PM UTC

      Some users may be experiencing degraded performance or intermittent outages.

    Latest: Some users may be experiencing degraded performance or intermittent outages.

  5. Resolved 1d 13h
    Started Sep 09, 2026, 07:19 PM UTC · Resolved Sep 11, 2026, 08:48 AM UTC
    BrightBooks
    Timeline · 2 updates
    • investigating · Sep 09, 2026, 07:19 PM UTC

      Users are receiving errors when attempting to send emails using BrightBooks. The team expect to address the issue tomorrow morning.

    • resolved · Sep 11, 2026, 08:48 AM UTC

      We have re-enabled email sending. The team are still looking at the issue and we are monitoring closely.

    Latest: We have re-enabled email sending. The team are still looking at the issue and we are monitoring closely.

See the full Bright outage history

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Incident record

Since October 2026 · Better Stack · 19 components checked every 5 minutes
21incidents recorded
21last 12 months
15last 90 days
22 hourstypical duration, 12 months

The longest incident in the last year, BrightPay - Investigation Complete on April 1, 2026, ran for 7 days. 7 maintenance windows announced in the same period.

Most affected components, last 12 months

  • BrightManager11
  • BrightID5
  • BrightPay4
  • BrightHub2
  • BrightBooks1

Latest incidents

  • Bright Systems Unavailable October 21, 2026 · still open · major outage

    We are experiencing issues. The team is investigating and we will provide updates as soon as we have them.

  • Hub, Authentication and Payslip issues October 21, 2026 · 21 minutes · degraded service

    We have received alerts from the Hub, Authentication and Payslip services. The team is currently investigating

  • BrightManager unavailable October 2, 2026 · 22 minutes · major outage

    We're aware of an issue impacting BrightManager and are actively releasing a fix.

Outage history

Past 90 days · 15 incidents View full outage history →