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Onfido Outage History

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

There were 191 Onfido outages since June 2020. The 37 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor May 12, 2026

May 2026: Degraded performance for Identity Reports in UK jurisdiction

Detected May 12, 2026 8:25 AM EDT · Resolved May 12, 2026 9:16 AM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Onfido experienced degraded performance for Identity Reports in the UK jurisdiction due to issues with one of their providers, resulting in a slight decrease in clear rates. The incident affected the Identity Enhanced component for 51 minutes. The issue was resolved after implementing a fix and monitoring confirmed that all clear rates returned to normal.

Major May 9, 2026

May 2026: QES tasks cannot complete because our provider is encountering issues.

Detected May 9, 2026 7:27 AM EDT · Resolved May 9, 2026 8:07 AM EDT · Duration 41 minutes

Onfido's QES (Qualified Electronic Signature) tasks could not complete for 41 minutes due to issues with their electronic signature provider. The provider resolved the underlying problem, allowing QES tasks to resume completion, and any tasks that were started during the incident were automatically resumed. The service was confirmed fully operational with no errors detected after the fix.

Major May 5, 2026

May 2026: QES tasks outage

Detected May 5, 2026 2:52 AM EDT · Resolved May 5, 2026 4:42 AM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Onfido experienced a major outage affecting QES (Qualified Electronic Signature) tasks, preventing all QES tasks from completing due to issues with their provider. The incident lasted 1.8 hours, with the provider fixing the underlying issue and Onfido resuming blocked tasks before confirming full operational status.

Major April 21, 2026

April 2026: QES tasks degraded performance

Detected Apr 21, 2026 10:56 AM EDT · Resolved Apr 21, 2026 1:13 PM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Onfido experienced a major service incident where QES (Qualified Electronic Signature) tasks encountered degraded performance due to an issue with one of their providers. All QES tasks were unable to complete during the incident, which lasted 2.3 hours. The provider gradually recovered and QES functionality was fully restored.