Alpaca incident

Brief API Timeouts

Resolved on October 19, 2026, affecting Account API and Orders API.

resolved Oct 19, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC

From 6:15 PM to 6:22 PM ET, some API requests experienced elevated timeouts. Most affected requests were retried successfully. The issue is resolved, and all services have been operating normally since.

Started
Oct 19, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 19, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC
Duration
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Detected by Pingoru
Oct 19, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC

Affected components

Account APIOrders API

Update timeline

  1. resolved Oct 19, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC

    From 6:15 PM to 6:22 PM ET, some API requests experienced elevated timeouts. Most affected requests were retried successfully. The issue is resolved, and all services have been operating normally since.

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