WatchGuard Outage History

WatchGuard is up right now

There were 26 WatchGuard outages since February 3, 2026 totaling 2h 16m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.watchguard.com

Minor February 3, 2026

2026-02-03 - GLOBAL - Issues with New Product Activations

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 03, 2026, 05:57 AM UTC
Resolved
Feb 03, 2026, 08:13 AM UTC
Duration
2h 16m
Affected: Activations:::CORE
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Feb 03, 2026, 05:57 AM UTC

    We're investigating issues with new activation. Our teams are working to restore normal operations and we apologize for the impact this event has caused. We'll post our next update in 1 hour, if not sooner.

  2. identified Feb 03, 2026, 06:59 AM UTC

    We continue to work on the issues with product activation and have identified the issue, related to a 3rd party provider. Our teams are working to restore normal operations and we apologize for the impact this event has caused. We'll post our next update in 1 hour, if not sooner.

  3. monitoring Feb 03, 2026, 07:42 AM UTC

    We are no longer experiencing issues with product activation in WatchGuard Cloud, we continue monitoring the performance of the activation services. We remain engaged and continue to investigate this issue. We'll post our next update in 30 minutes, if not sooner.

  4. resolved Feb 03, 2026, 08:13 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved and the service is operating normally at this time. The issue was caused by problems with our third-party provider. Again, we apologize for any impact this may have had on you or your customers.

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