Unsplash Outage History

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Unsplash had 6 outages in the last 2 years totaling 29h 29m of downtime — averaging 0.2 incidents per month.

There were 6 Unsplash outages since May 19, 2025 totaling 29h 29m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.unsplash.com

Major June 22, 2026

Increased error rate

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 22, 2026, 09:51 AM UTC
Resolved
Jun 22, 2026, 03:53 PM UTC
Duration
6h 1m
Affected: APIWebsiteSearch Infrastructure
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. investigating Jun 22, 2026, 09:51 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. investigating Jun 22, 2026, 09:55 AM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. identified Jun 22, 2026, 11:47 AM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  4. monitoring Jun 22, 2026, 03:14 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  5. resolved Jun 22, 2026, 03:53 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice February 26, 2026

Elevated errors

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 26, 2026, 08:51 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 26, 2026, 09:37 PM UTC
Duration
45m
Affected: Server Infrastructure
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Feb 26, 2026, 08:51 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. investigating Feb 26, 2026, 08:51 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. monitoring Feb 26, 2026, 09:10 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved Feb 26, 2026, 09:37 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor October 20, 2025

AWS us-east issues

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 07:23 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2025, 10:45 PM UTC
Duration
3h 21m
Affected: APIWebsiteServer InfrastructureSearch Infrastructure
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Oct 20, 2025, 07:23 PM UTC

    We are seeing networking errors in our AWS dependent services.

  2. identified Oct 20, 2025, 07:29 PM UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  3. resolved Oct 20, 2025, 10:45 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor October 9, 2025

Partial search outage

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 09, 2025, 12:03 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 09, 2025, 03:50 PM UTC
Duration
3h 46m
Affected: Search Infrastructure
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Oct 09, 2025, 12:03 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating the elevated error rates observed at our search cluster.

  2. monitoring Oct 09, 2025, 03:20 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Oct 09, 2025, 03:50 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor May 20, 2025

Performance issues after DB upgrade

Detected by Pingoru
May 20, 2025, 07:44 AM UTC
Resolved
May 20, 2025, 06:25 PM UTC
Duration
10h 41m
Affected: API
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating May 20, 2025, 07:44 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring May 20, 2025, 11:20 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved May 20, 2025, 06:25 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice May 19, 2025

Performance issues during database upgrade

Detected by Pingoru
May 19, 2025, 04:47 PM UTC
Resolved
May 19, 2025, 09:40 PM UTC
Duration
4h 52m
Affected: API
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified May 19, 2025, 04:47 PM UTC

    We are seeing performance degradation during search due to a database upgrade.

  2. monitoring May 19, 2025, 09:37 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved May 19, 2025, 09:40 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →