Stack Overflow Outage History

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Stack Overflow had 30 outages in the last 2 years totaling 44h 34m of downtime — averaging 1.2 incidents per month.

There were 30 Stack Overflow outages since April 27, 2026 totaling 44h 34m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://www.stackstatus.com

Minor May 5, 2026

Intermittent site connectivity Issues

Detected by Pingoru
May 05, 2026, 04:58 PM UTC
Resolved
May 06, 2026, 08:54 AM UTC
Duration
15h 56m
Timeline · 1 update
  1. monitoring May 05, 2026, 04:39 PM UTC

    Incident: We're receiving reports of intermittent site connectivity affecting some sites across our platform. The reports are of the error ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE. Our System Administration team is investigating this further now, and updates will be provided as more information becomes available.

Read the full incident report →

Minor May 4, 2026

Email Connectivity

Detected by Pingoru
May 04, 2026, 01:36 PM UTC
Resolved
May 05, 2026, 02:53 PM UTC
Duration
1d 1h
Timeline · 1 update
  1. monitoring May 04, 2026, 01:24 PM UTC

    Incident: We're aware of intermittent connectivity on our shared e-mail platform. Our System Administrators are currently investigating, and updates will be provided as we have more information available.

Read the full incident report →

Minor May 4, 2026

Email Connectivity - Resolved

Detected by Pingoru
May 04, 2026, 01:36 PM UTC
Resolved
May 04, 2026, 01:36 PM UTC
Duration
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved May 04, 2026, 01:36 PM UTC

    Incident Update: The issue has now been resolved by our system administrators, and all affected services are operating normally.

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Minor April 30, 2026

SSH Connectivity - Resolved

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 30, 2026, 12:50 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 30, 2026, 12:50 PM UTC
Duration
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Apr 30, 2026, 12:50 PM UTC

    Incident Update: Our system administrators have now resolved the previous issue with SSH. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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Minor April 30, 2026

SSH Connectivity - UK

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 30, 2026, 12:50 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 30, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC
Duration
3h 20m
Timeline · 1 update
  1. monitoring Apr 30, 2026, 12:18 PM UTC

    Incident: We're aware of issues with SSH connectivity to hosting packages in the UK at the moment. Our system administration team are looking into this now, and we will provide a further update shortly.

Read the full incident report →