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Box Outage History

Every past Box outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 229 Box outages since February 2019. The 31 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Major May 6, 2026

May 2026: [Critical] Issue with Box Folder, collections, Box AI and Hubs

Detected May 6, 2026 9:20 PM EDT · Resolved May 6, 2026 11:10 PM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Box experienced a critical incident affecting folders, collections, Box AI, and Hubs for 1.8 hours, causing customers to see loading errors and preventing access to these core features. Users reported being unable to access folders and failed collection loading during the outage. The Box team identified the root cause and implemented remediation steps, with the incident fully resolved after monitoring confirmed service restoration.

Major April 27, 2026

April 2026: [Medium] Issues with Box Search

Detected Apr 27, 2026 1:36 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 27, 2026 3:12 PM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Box experienced a major incident where search by metadata functionality in the Web Application failed to return results for users. The issue lasted 1.6 hours before the team identified the root cause, implemented a fix, and restored full search functionality. Search services were completely resolved after monitoring confirmed the remediation was successful.

Major April 3, 2026

April 2026: [Critical] Issues with Box Sign

Detected Apr 3, 2026 12:04 AM EDT · Resolved Apr 3, 2026 4:11 AM EDT · Duration about 4 hours

Box Sign experienced a critical service disruption that lasted 4.1 hours, preventing users from accessing signature functionality. The engineering team identified the root cause and implemented remediation steps. Box Sign services were fully restored and the incident was resolved.

Major March 25, 2026

March 2026: [Major] Issues to access Admin Console dashboard

Detected Mar 25, 2026 7:44 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 25, 2026 10:06 AM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Box experienced a major incident affecting the Admin Console dashboard for 2.4 hours, causing users to experience slowness when attempting to access administrative functionality. The Box team identified the underlying cause and implemented remediation steps to restore service. The Admin Console has been fully restored to normal functionality.

Major March 25, 2026

March 2026: [Critical] Issue with Box Shuttle

Detected Mar 25, 2026 1:52 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 25, 2026 1:04 PM EDT · Duration about 11 hours

Box Shuttle experienced a critical service disruption that lasted 11.2 hours, preventing users from accessing the file transfer service. The Box team identified the root cause and implemented remediation steps to restore functionality. The service was fully restored and is now operating normally.

Major March 19, 2026

March 2026: [Major] Issues with Logins, Folder and File Preview, and Shared Links

Detected Mar 19, 2026 11:37 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 20, 2026 1:10 AM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Box experienced a major incident affecting login/SSO, file preview, and shared links, where customers encountered white or blank pages when accessing subfolders and shared links. The issue impacted core functionality including user authentication and file sharing capabilities. The incident was resolved after 1.6 hours once the engineering team identified the root cause and implemented a fix.

Minor March 9, 2026

March 2026: [Minor] Issue affecting Logins

Detected Mar 9, 2026 8:30 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 9, 2026 9:14 PM EDT · Duration 44 minutes

Box experienced a login service incident where customers encountered errors or delays when attempting to log in to their accounts. The issue affected the Login/SSO component and lasted 44 minutes before being resolved. The team identified the root cause, implemented a fix, and monitored the service until full stability was restored.

Major February 27, 2026

February 2026: [Major] Increased FTP 530 Captcha errors

Detected Feb 27, 2026 3:02 PM EST · Resolved Feb 27, 2026 6:54 PM EST · Duration about 4 hours

Box experienced a major incident where FTP and SFTP login services were affected by increased 530 Captcha errors, preventing users from accessing these file transfer services. The incident lasted 3.9 hours before a fix was implemented and service was restored to full functionality.

Major February 24, 2026

February 2026: [Critical] Issue with Box API

Detected Feb 24, 2026 6:32 PM EST · Resolved Feb 24, 2026 7:18 PM EST · Duration about 1 hour

Box experienced a critical issue with their API that affected the Content API component for 46 minutes. The team identified the underlying cause and implemented remediation steps to restore functionality. The incident was resolved with Box API returning to full operational status.