WP Engine is currently experiencing a major incident affecting Europe, which began 1d ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 20, 2026, 06:33 AM UTC
We have received reports of some installs experiencing 522 errors at this time. Our internal teams are currently investigating.
- investigating Oct 20, 2026, 08:18 AM UTC
We are currently working with our impacted vendor partner who is investigating downtime and 522 errors for a subset of customers in the EU region. Updates will follow when available.
- investigating Oct 20, 2026, 09:16 AM UTC
We are continuing to work with our impacted vendor partner who is investigating downtime and 522 errors for a subset of customers in the EU region. More updates will follow when available.
- investigating Oct 20, 2026, 10:10 AM UTC
We are actively engaged with our vendor partner as they investigate the downtime and 522 errors affecting a subset of our EU customers. Further updates will be provided as soon as they become available.
- identified Oct 20, 2026, 11:22 AM UTC
Our third party vendor has confirmed a power outage which has been mitigated. They are working on restoring infrastructure services. Further updates will be provided as we receive them.
- identified Oct 20, 2026, 12:22 PM UTC
Our third-party vendor is actively working to restore the affected services. Updates will be posted as we see improvements.
- monitoring Oct 20, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC
All services are fully operational again at this time. We will continue to monitor the situation and update this status page once we have more information to provide.