edX experienced a critical incident on August 7, 2025 affecting Student Courseware and Grader Queues and 1 more component, lasting 7m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Student CoursewareGrader QueuesInstructor AnalyticsCourse Authoring (Studio)
Update timeline
- 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.
- 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.