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Mailgun Outage History

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

There were 184 Mailgun outages since January 2018. The 21 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor April 17, 2026

April 2026: Elevated Timeouts for Validations

Detected Apr 17, 2026 12:45 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 17, 2026 1:18 PM EDT · Duration 33 minutes

Mailgun experienced elevated timeouts in their Email Validation service for 33 minutes. The issue was identified and a fix was implemented to restore normal validation response times. The incident was resolved after monitoring confirmed the fix was successful.

Major April 15, 2026

April 2026: TLS Certificate Validation Errors for Clients Without SNI

Detected Apr 15, 2026 9:40 AM EDT · Resolved Apr 15, 2026 11:35 AM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Mailgun experienced a major incident where customers making HTTPS requests to the API without Server Name Indication (SNI) enabled received expired SSL/TLS certificates, causing certificate validation failures. The issue affected the API service and prevented these clients from successfully connecting to Mailgun's services. The problem was identified, fixed, and fully resolved after 1.9 hours of downtime.

Minor April 7, 2026

April 2026: Elevated 500 errors on Messages endpoint in US

Detected Apr 7, 2026 1:30 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 7, 2026 1:44 PM EDT · Duration 14 minutes

Mailgun's Messages API endpoint in the US region experienced elevated 500 errors for 14 minutes, preventing users from successfully sending messages through the API. The issue was quickly identified and resolved with a fix implemented within 5 minutes of identification. Normal API functionality was restored and confirmed through monitoring.

Major March 19, 2026

March 2026: Elevated 401 errors in US Region

Detected Mar 19, 2026 2:43 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 19, 2026 2:53 PM EDT · Duration 10 minutes

Mailgun's API in the US region experienced elevated 401 authentication errors, causing some requests to incorrectly fail. The issue affected API functionality for 10 minutes before a fix was deployed and systems returned to normal operation.

Major March 13, 2026

March 2026: Intermittent API Errors in US Region

Detected Mar 13, 2026 7:29 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 13, 2026 8:50 AM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Mailgun experienced intermittent API errors in the US region for 1.4 hours, affecting the API component and preventing normal service functionality. The issue was identified and a fix was implemented, with the incident being fully resolved after a monitoring period.

Major February 25, 2026

February 2026: Intermittent Email Validation Errors

Detected Feb 25, 2026 2:10 PM EST · Resolved Feb 25, 2026 4:47 PM EST · Duration about 3 hours

Mailgun experienced intermittent email validation errors affecting their API and Email Validation services for 2.6 hours, with domain verification also impacted by increased failure rates. The engineering team identified the issue and implemented a fix, resolving the incident after monitoring the results.