Zulip Outage History

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Zulip had 10 outages in the last 2 years totaling 17h 8m of downtime — averaging 0.4 incidents per month.

There were 10 Zulip outages since June 8, 2024 totaling 17h 8m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.zulip.com

Critical April 22, 2026

Outage

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 22, 2026, 05:32 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 22, 2026, 09:25 PM UTC
Duration
3h 52m
Affected: Zulip CloudMobile Push Notification ServiceEmail notifications
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 05:32 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified Apr 22, 2026, 05:47 PM UTC

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

  3. monitoring Apr 22, 2026, 06:00 PM UTC

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

  4. resolved Apr 22, 2026, 09:25 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major April 1, 2026

Partial outage

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 01, 2026, 12:26 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 01, 2026, 01:20 AM UTC
Duration
53m
Affected: Zulip CloudMobile Push Notification Service
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 01, 2026, 12:26 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring Apr 01, 2026, 12:49 AM UTC

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

  3. resolved Apr 01, 2026, 01:20 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical March 26, 2026

zulip.com outage

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 26, 2026, 02:04 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 26, 2026, 05:59 PM UTC
Duration
3h 55m
Affected: Zulip CloudMobile Push Notification Service
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Mar 26, 2026, 02:04 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring Mar 26, 2026, 02:11 PM UTC

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

  3. monitoring Mar 26, 2026, 02:11 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  4. resolved Mar 26, 2026, 05:59 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical January 14, 2026

Service outage

Detected by Pingoru
Jan 14, 2026, 06:56 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 14, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC
Duration
23m
Affected: Zulip CloudMobile Push Notification ServiceEmail notifications
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Jan 14, 2026, 06:56 AM UTC

    We've experienced a service outage, and we're investigating.

  2. monitoring Jan 14, 2026, 06:57 AM UTC

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

  3. resolved Jan 14, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor December 19, 2025

Image thumbnailing delays

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 19, 2025, 02:01 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 19, 2025, 03:13 PM UTC
Duration
1h 12m
Affected: Zulip Cloud
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Dec 19, 2025, 02:01 PM UTC

    We're investigating delays generating image thumbnails.

  2. monitoring Dec 19, 2025, 02:05 PM UTC

    We've cleared the image thumbnailing backlog, and are monitoring the fix.

  3. resolved Dec 19, 2025, 03:13 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor October 20, 2025

Outgoing email outage

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 04:45 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2025, 06:28 PM UTC
Duration
1h 42m
Affected: Email notifications
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 04:45 PM UTC

    We believe this issue to be related to AWS' ongoing global outage.

  2. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 05:08 PM UTC

    We have failed over our outgoing email service, and backlogged messages have completed being sent.

  3. resolved Oct 20, 2025, 06:28 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor August 14, 2025

Some Apple push notifications were not sent

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 14, 2025, 02:16 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 14, 2025, 03:54 PM UTC
Duration
1h 37m
Affected: Mobile Push Notification Service
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Aug 14, 2025, 02:16 PM UTC

    A very small minority of Apple push notifications failed to be delivered since Aug 13 at 03:04 UTC; overall, this was 0.04% of notifications which were affected.

  2. monitoring Aug 14, 2025, 03:20 PM UTC

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

  3. resolved Aug 14, 2025, 03:54 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice June 11, 2025

Incoming email outage

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 11, 2025, 02:30 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 11, 2025, 05:22 AM UTC
Duration
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Jun 11, 2025, 02:30 PM UTC

    From 05:22 to 13:42 UTC, incoming email integrations (to email addresses @streams.zulipchat.com) were dropped, due to an improper configuration change during a deploy. Unfortunately, we do not have access to the bounced messages, so any incoming emails in this time frame have been lost.

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Minor June 8, 2024

Push notification outage

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 08, 2024, 04:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Jun 08, 2024, 04:00 AM UTC
Duration
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Jun 11, 2024, 07:43 PM UTC

    Due to a change in the Zulip push noitifications service, some self-hosted servers were incorrectly marked as not having provided the required basic instance metadata that the push notification server requires. As a consequence, some self-hosted servers experienced an outage in their push notifications service for 2024/06/08; service was restored at 2024/06/09 00:45 UTC.

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