Epic Games incident

Fortnite Matchmaking Outage

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Epic Games experienced a critical incident on January 29, 2026 affecting Matchmaking and Matchmaking and 1 more component, lasting 2h 47m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jan 29, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC
Resolved
Jan 30, 2026, 01:26 AM UTC
Duration
2h 47m
Detected by Pingoru
Jan 29, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

Affected components

MatchmakingMatchmakingMatchmakingMatchmaking

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jan 29, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

    We're investigating matchmaking issues across several games and experiences in Fortnite.

  2. investigating Jan 29, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. investigating Jan 29, 2026, 10:52 PM UTC

    Matchmaking is working for most players, but some may still have issues queueing into matches.

  4. resolved Jan 30, 2026, 01:26 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.