We have identified few connectors that are impacting users.
Timeline · 1 update
- resolved Sep 05, 2026, 07:09 AM UTC
Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved.
Perplexity had 15 outages in the last 2 years totaling 4h 10m of downtime — averaging 0.6 incidents per month.
There were 15 Perplexity outages since October 20, 2025 totaling 4h 10m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.
Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved.
Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved.
Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved. Affected components Computer (Operational)
Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved.
Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved.
Status: Resolved all our tests are back to normal
Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved.
Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved.
We’re experiencing an internal infrastructure outage that’s degrading the Computer experience. Our team is actively investigating and working on a resolution.
Type: Incident Duration: 4 hours and 31 minutes Affected Components: Website Jun 5, 01:00:00 GMT+0 - Monitoring - Connectors are recovering and getting back to normal for all users. Jun 4, 21:10:00 GMT+0 - Investigating - We have identified connector issues that are currently impacting users. Jun 5, 01:40:38 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
A small percentage of our users may experience instability while using Perplexity Website and products. We're investigating the incident.
We’ve identified the root cause in the underlying AWS infrastructure. We’re actively working with the AWS team to mitigate the issue and fully restore the service.
This incident has been resolved.
We are continuing to work on a fix for this incident.
This incident has been resolved.
Type: Incident Duration: 52 minutes Affected Components: API Feb 16, 21:35:20 GMT+0 - Investigating - We are currently investigating this incident affecting Sonar API. Feb 16, 21:48:00 GMT+0 - Identified - We have identified the root cause and working on the mitigation. Feb 16, 22:14:44 GMT+0 - Monitoring - Sonar API is recovering. We'll continue monitoring the service and its health. Feb 16, 22:27:00 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Type: Incident Duration: 18 minutes Affected Components: Website Feb 5, 22:18:11 GMT+0 - Investigating - We are investigating elevated error rates on the Perplexity website. Feb 5, 22:36:11 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Type: Incident Duration: 34 minutes Affected Components: Website, API Dec 5, 09:06:41 GMT+0 - Investigating - We are currently investigating this incident. Dec 5, 09:23:16 GMT+0 - Monitoring - The service is recovering and we are monitoring; the outage was caused by an underlying service provider issue. Dec 5, 09:41:11 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Type: Incident Duration: 2 hours Affected Components: Website, API Nov 18, 13:00:00 GMT+0 - Investigating - We are currently investigating this incident. Nov 18, 13:46:17 GMT+0 - Investigating - We are currently investigating this incident. Nov 18, 14:59:39 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.