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Outage in Akamai

Content Purge API Issues

Resolved Minor
February 19, 2026 - Started about 14 hours ago - Lasted about 1 hour
Official incident page

Incident Report

We are investigating an emerging issue with Content Purge related to 503 error responses to a portion of purge requests submitted via API. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide another update within the next 60 minutes. We will soon be posting more details for customers and partners with a valid Control Center login at https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/group/0F90f000000DFgx/service-incident-notifications. If you have questions or are experiencing an impact due to this issue, please use the Support Center on Akamai Community (https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/support), or Akamai Control Center, to contact Akamai Technical Support. Contact information is available at https://www.akamai.com/us/en/support/.
Components affected
Akamai Content Purge

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RESOLVED about 12 hours ago - at 02/19/2026 09:50PM

We can confirm that the issue was mitigated at ~19:00 UTC on February 19, 2026, and the service has resumed normal operation. Customers and partners can view additional details about the incident by logging in to: https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/feed/0D5a700000uxhxXCAQ?language=en_US or reaching out to Akamai Support. We apologize for the impact and thank you for your patience and continued support. We are committed to making continuous improvements to make our systems better and prevent a recurrence of this issue.

INVESTIGATING about 14 hours ago - at 02/19/2026 08:22PM

We are investigating an emerging issue with Content Purge related to 503 error responses to a portion of purge requests submitted via API. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide another update within the next 60 minutes. We will soon be posting more details for customers and partners with a valid Control Center login at https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/group/0F90f000000DFgx/service-incident-notifications. If you have questions or are experiencing an impact due to this issue, please use the Support Center on Akamai Community (https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/support), or Akamai Control Center, to contact Akamai Technical Support. Contact information is available at https://www.akamai.com/us/en/support/.

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