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Outage in Alpaca

Response-times-are-increasing-due-to-database-connection issue

Resolved Minor
January 23, 2026 - Started 21 days ago - Lasted 42 minutes
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Incident Report

We are currently experiencing increased response times due to elevated database connection usage. Our engineering team is actively investigating the issue, and we will keep you posted with updates here.
Components affected
Alpaca broker.accounts.get Alpaca broker.trading.accounts.account_id.orders.get

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED 21 days ago - at 01/23/2026 02:49PM

As everything is fine now , Marking this incident resolved here.

MONITORING 21 days ago - at 01/23/2026 02:25PM

After clearing the blocking database process, Overall response times are improving and moving back toward what we normally see.

IDENTIFIED 21 days ago - at 01/23/2026 02:21PM

Our engineering team has identified a few overloaded backend components and has restarted them and cleared a blocking database process to relieve pressure.

INVESTIGATING 21 days ago - at 01/23/2026 02:12PM

We are currently experiencing increased response times due to elevated database connection usage. Our engineering team is actively investigating the issue, and we will keep you posted with updates here.

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