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Bright is operational right now. Last checked 13m ago; the most recent incident resolved 2d ago.

Real-time Bright status, recent outages, and incident history: pulled directly from Bright's official status page at status.brightsg.com every 5 minutes. Pingoru tracks 19 Bright services and has captured 20 incidents in the last 90 days (97.78% uptime). Get email, Slack, Discord, or webhook alerts the moment Bright reports a new incident, free for 3 monitors, no credit card.

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Recent outages & incidents

Past 90 days
  1. Resolved 1h
    Started Oct 29, 2026, 02:59 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 29, 2026, 04:00 PM UTC
    Inform Direct
    Timeline · 2 updates
    • investigating · Oct 29, 2026, 02:59 PM UTC

      Companies House is currently experiencing an interruption to its services. Therefore, any action in Inform Direct that relies on retrieving information from or submitting to Companies House will be adversely affected.

    • resolved · Oct 29, 2026, 04:00 PM UTC

      Upstream Companies House issue have now been resolved - we continue to monitor.

    Latest: Upstream Companies House issue have now been resolved - we continue to monitor.

  2. Resolved 14h 50m
    Started Oct 21, 2026, 02:25 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 22, 2026, 05:16 AM UTC
    BrightProposeBrightManagerBrightCoSecMyWorkpapersBrightManagerBrightWorkpapers
    Timeline · 2 updates
    • investigating · Oct 21, 2026, 02:25 PM UTC

      We are experiencing issues. The team is investigating and we will provide updates as soon as we have them.

    • resolved · Oct 22, 2026, 05:16 AM UTC

      Resolved: All services are now back up and available following global security advisories.

    Latest: Resolved: All services are now back up and available following global security advisories.

  3. Resolved 21m
    Started Oct 21, 2026, 10:43 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 21, 2026, 11:04 AM UTC
    BrightIDBrightHubBrightID
    Timeline · 2 updates
    • investigating · Oct 21, 2026, 10:43 AM UTC

      We have received alerts from the Hub, Authentication and Payslip services. The team is currently investigating

    • resolved · Oct 21, 2026, 11:04 AM UTC

      The team have concluded their investigation and the services are operating normally.

    Latest: The team have concluded their investigation and the services are operating normally.

  4. Resolved 22m
    Started Oct 02, 2026, 08:35 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 02, 2026, 08:57 AM UTC
    BrightManagerBrightManager
    Timeline · 2 updates
    • investigating · Oct 02, 2026, 08:35 AM UTC

      We're aware of an issue impacting BrightManager and are actively releasing a fix.

    • resolved · Oct 02, 2026, 08:57 AM UTC

      We have addressed the issue impacting BrightManager and are continuing to monitor

    Latest: We have addressed the issue impacting BrightManager and are continuing to monitor

  5. Resolved 31m
    Started Oct 02, 2026, 07:43 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 02, 2026, 08:14 AM UTC
    BrightPayBrightPay
    Timeline · 2 updates
    • investigating · Oct 02, 2026, 07:43 AM UTC

      There are currently issues with making submissions to Nest. The team have identified the source of the problem and are working to resolve it.

    • resolved · Oct 02, 2026, 08:14 AM UTC

      The team have addressed the source of the problem and are monitoring the fix.

    Latest: The team have addressed the source of the problem and are monitoring the fix.

See the full Bright outage history

7 more incidents in the last 90 days, plus the full multi-year archive of per-service events and update timelines.

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Incident record

Since October 2026 · Better Stack · 19 components checked every 5 minutes
22incidents recorded
22last 12 months
12last 90 days
20 hourstypical duration, 12 months

The longest incident in the last year, BrightPay - Investigation Complete on April 1, 2026, ran for 7 days. 8 maintenance windows announced in the same period.

Most affected components, last 12 months

  • BrightManager11
  • BrightManager11
  • BrightID5
  • BrightID5
  • BrightPay4

Latest incidents

  • Inform Direct: Companies House Functionality Degraded October 29, 2026 · 60 minutes · degraded service

    Companies House is currently experiencing an interruption to its services. Therefore, any action in Inform Direct that relies on retrieving information from or…

  • Bright Systems Unavailable October 21, 2026 · 15 hours · major outage

    We are experiencing issues. The team is investigating and we will provide updates as soon as we have them.

  • Hub, Authentication and Payslip issues October 21, 2026 · 21 minutes · degraded service

    We have received alerts from the Hub, Authentication and Payslip services. The team is currently investigating

Outage history

Past 90 days · 12 incidents View full outage history →