Okta experienced a minor incident on August 14, 2026 affecting Core Platform and MFA and 1 more component, lasting 7d 4h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 14, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC
At 8/14/2026 7:35 AM PT, the Core Identity team became aware of an issue with email deliverability affecting customers in commercial cells. During this time, users may be experiencing intermittent issues receiving email from Okta. Our team is actively investigating this issue and is working to mitigate it.
- investigating Aug 14, 2026, 03:23 PM UTC
Okta Engineering is investigating and has determined that the incident is currently impacting email delivery to a subset of customers. During this time, customers may experience email delivery deferrals. We’ll provide an update in 30 minutes, or sooner if additional information becomes available.
- monitoring Aug 14, 2026, 03:39 PM UTC
Okta Engineering has determined that certain third-party providers were failing to receive emails from Okta. Our monitoring shows delivery rates are recovering to normal conditions and will continue to monitor until full resolution. Our next update will be in 30 minutes or sooner if additional information becomes available.
- resolved Aug 14, 2026, 04:50 PM UTC
Our monitoring indicates that email deferrals to the impacted third-party email service have returned to the expected baseline. Additional information will be available within 5 Business days.
- resolved Aug 21, 2026, 04:04 PM UTC
We sincerely apologize for any impact this incident has caused to you, your business, or your customers. At Okta, trust and transparency are our top priorities. Outlined below is the RCA summary for a recent incident where a third-party provider or downstream service experienced an issue that impacted the Okta service. We are committed to implementing improvements to the service to prevent similar occurrences. Detection and Impact: Okta detected an increase in customer support tickets regarding email delivery issues. Customers using custom email domains routed through Proofpoint experienced email delivery deferrals. During this period, affected end users were unable to receive system-generated emails, including One-Time Passwords (OTPs), account activation emails, password reset emails, factor enrollment emails, and other automated notifications. Root Cause Summary: Third-party provider Proofpoint experienced a service disruption, causing issues with email deliverability. When Okta services attempted to send emails to recipient domains whose MX records pointed to Proofpoint’s infrastructure, the delivery attempts failed due to connection errors, resulting in deferred delivery. Okta’s email sending infrastructure operated normally throughout the event. Remediation Steps: Okta Engineering monitored service telemetry and confirmed that email delivery returned to normal pre-incident baselines once Proofpoint restored stability to its infrastructure. Preventive Actions: Okta is defining automated alerting thresholds for email-bound and deferral rates to decrease detection time and updating runbooks to allow faster diagnosis of downstream provider disruptions. Timing: Incident start: August 14, 2026, at 5:00 AM PDT Incident resolved: August 14, 2026, at 10:04 AM PDT. Duration (# of minutes): 304 minutes Based on details provided by https://www.proofpoint.com/us/support-services