edX Outage History

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edX had 5 outages in the last 2 years totaling 28h 55m of downtime — averaging 0.2 incidents per month.

There were 5 edX outages since June 12, 2025 totaling 28h 55m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.edx.org

Minor August 21, 2025

Slow performance on edX

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 21, 2025, 07:05 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 21, 2025, 11:38 PM UTC
Duration
4h 32m
Affected: Student Courseware
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Aug 21, 2025, 07:05 PM UTC

    As of approximately 6 p.m. UTC, edX systems including but not necessarily limited to the learner dashboard and the in-course experience are experiencing slower performance than is typical. We are currently investigating the cause of this issue.

  2. resolved Aug 21, 2025, 11:38 PM UTC

    The latency issues across edX have been resolved and all services should now be operating normally. The issues appear to have been caused by one of our service providers, Cloudflare, which experienced degraded performance today, impacting applications across the internet.

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Critical August 18, 2025

Intermittent outages in the edX learning platform

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 18, 2025, 07:02 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 19, 2025, 07:17 PM UTC
Duration
1d
Affected: Edge coursewareStudent CoursewareEdge Instructor AnalyticsGrader QueuesEdge StudioInstructor AnalyticsCourse Authoring (Studio)
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. monitoring Aug 18, 2025, 07:02 PM UTC

    Starting at about 3:30 p.m. UTC, edX has experienced intermittent outages to key elements of the learning experience, including, but not necessarily limited to, student courseware and course authoring in Studio. While we have not identified any issues since about 5:15 p.m. UTC and all systems are fully operational, we continue to investigate the cause and are closely monitoring the situation.

  2. monitoring Aug 19, 2025, 07:16 PM UTC

    As of approximately 4 p.m. UTC, the edX engineering team has determined the root cause of the August 18 outage and has taken steps to ensure it will not impact our systems again.

  3. resolved Aug 19, 2025, 07:17 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical August 7, 2025

Most edX functionality unavailable

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 07, 2025, 01:22 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 07, 2025, 01:30 PM UTC
Duration
7m
Affected: Student CoursewareGrader QueuesInstructor AnalyticsCourse Authoring (Studio)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Aug 07, 2025, 01:22 PM UTC

    Nearly all functionality on edX.org, including the learning and authoring experiences, became unavailable as of 11:33 a.m. UTC. The edX mobile apps for Android and iOS are also impacted. Our teams are currently investigating this issue.

  2. resolved Aug 07, 2025, 01:30 PM UTC

    As of 1:25 p.m. UTC, the outage that impacted edX.org learning and authoring functionality, including the edX mobile apps, has been resolved and our systems are fully operational. This outage lasted for approximately two hours. We continue to monitor our systems closely for any signs of instability.

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Notice July 31, 2025

Discussions unavailable

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 31, 2025, 06:32 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 31, 2025, 06:32 PM UTC
Duration
—
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Jul 31, 2025, 06:32 PM UTC

    Due to a hosting configuration issue, discussions were unavailable in edX courses for approximately 12 hours yesterday and today, from 5:30 p.m. UTC on Wednesday, July 30, until 5:30 a.m. UTC on Thursday, July 31. While users were able to navigate to discussions during this time, they could not see any posts or responses. This issue has now been resolved.

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Notice June 12, 2025

Commerce and dashboard functionality unavailable

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 12, 2025, 09:01 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 12, 2025, 09:01 PM UTC
Duration
—
Affected: Checkout
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Jun 12, 2025, 09:01 PM UTC

    Due to widespread global outages impacting service providers used by edX, some users were not able to purchase edX products approximately between 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. UTC. In addition, some users were unable to access program cards in their dashboard. These services are back online and the issues have now been resolved.

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