Sprout Social incident

Performance Issues impacting LinkedIn API

Resolved after 4 hours 23 minutes, affecting Sprout Social API, on May 20, 2026.

identified May 20, 2026, 11:18 AM UTC

We are experiencing intermittent issues with LinkedIn due to an external LinkedIn API outage involving server timeout errors. As a result, connecting LinkedIn profiles, publishing content, or fetching reports may be temporarily affected or fail unexpectedly. We are actively monitoring LinkedIn's progress toward a resolution.

Started
May 20, 2026, 11:18 AM UTC
Resolved
May 20, 2026, 03:42 PM UTC
Duration
4h 23m
Detected by Pingoru
May 20, 2026, 11:18 AM UTC

Affected components

Sprout Social API

Update timeline

  1. identified May 20, 2026, 11:18 AM UTC

    We are experiencing intermittent issues with LinkedIn due to an external LinkedIn API outage involving server timeout errors. As a result, connecting LinkedIn profiles, publishing content, or fetching reports may be temporarily affected or fail unexpectedly. We are actively monitoring LinkedIn's progress toward a resolution.

  2. resolved May 20, 2026, 03:42 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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