Alpaca incident
Response-times-are-increasing-due-to-database-connection issue
Resolved after 36 minutes, affecting broker.accounts.get and broker.trading.accounts.account_id.orders.get, on January 23, 2026.
We are continuously monitoring and things are normal as of now.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jan 23, 2026, 02:12 PM UTC
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.
- identified Jan 23, 2026, 02:21 PM UTC
Our engineering team has identified a few overloaded backend components and has restarted them and cleared a blocking database process to relieve pressure.
- monitoring Jan 23, 2026, 02:25 PM UTC
After clearing the blocking database process, Overall response times are improving and moving back toward what we normally see.
- monitoring Jan 23, 2026, 02:33 PM UTC
We are continuously monitoring and things are normal as of now.
- resolved Jan 23, 2026, 02:49 PM UTC
As everything is fine now , Marking this incident resolved here.
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