LinkedIn API experienced a major incident on May 20, 2026, lasting 7h 20m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- investigating May 20, 2026, 08:10 AM UTC
We are currently experiencing an issue across the platform that may cause some API requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly with 500 or 503 status code due to server timeout. We are investigating the issue and working on a resolution.
- resolved May 20, 2026, 03:31 PM UTC
The issue causing increased 500 server timeout errors has been resolved since 11:00 UTC and traffic has returned to normal levels.