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Last checked 5m agoNo incidents right now.
Firetext is operational right now. Last checked 5m ago; the most recent incident resolved 52d ago.
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Recent outages & incidents
Past 90 days- APIApplicationOutbound SMSInbound SMSURL ShortenerWebsite
Timeline · 9 updates
- investigating · Aug 18, 2026, 11:47 PM UTC
We are aware of services currently being unavailable. The team is actively investigating and working to resolve the issues.
- investigating · Aug 19, 2026, 12:20 AM UTC
Our database instances have crashed as 19/08/26 23:47 BST. The team is currently looking to restore services from backups but we anticipate this to take several hours. Outbound and Inbound SMS are currently affected.
- investigating · Aug 19, 2026, 12:23 AM UTC
Our database instances have crashed as 18/08/26 23:47 BST. The team is currently looking to restore services from backups but we anticipate this to take several hours. Outbound and Inbound SMS are currently affected.
- investigating · Aug 19, 2026, 12:24 AM UTC
Our database instances have crashed as 18/08/26 23:47 BST. The team is currently looking to restore services from backups but we anticipate this to take several hours. Outbound and Inbound SMS are currently affected.
- investigating · Aug 19, 2026, 03:57 AM UTC
Attempts to restore services are taking longer than expected. We apologise for the continued interruption.
- investigating · Aug 19, 2026, 07:41 AM UTC
Unfortunately restorations of the affected database instances are still in progress, we're awaiting feedback from engineers on expediting the process. A further update will be provided at 10am.
- investigating · Aug 19, 2026, 09:03 AM UTC
Progress is still slow but approaching 50%, the team continue to evaluate all available options. Next update by 12pm.
- monitoring · Aug 19, 2026, 11:11 AM UTC
A fix was put in place promoting a new instance around 11:30. Messages look to be flowing again. The team will continue to monitor before closing the incident. If still having any issues do let us know.
- resolved · Aug 19, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Latest: This incident has been resolved.
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- Outbound SMSInbound SMS
Timeline · 2 updates
- investigating · Aug 14, 2026, 10:01 AM UTC
We are aware of some degradation with SMS performance to and from O2 starting at 14/08/26 10:36 BST. MT, MO and DR deliveries maybe affected or delayed.
- resolved · Aug 14, 2026, 11:17 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved as of 14/08/26 11:12 BST.
Latest: This incident has been resolved as of 14/08/26 11:12 BST.
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- Unplanned Outage ResolvedStarted Aug 19, 2026, 12:20 AM UTC · Resolved Aug 19, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC · 22h 10m
- Started Aug 14, 2026, 10:01 AM UTC · Resolved Aug 14, 2026, 11:17 AM UTC · 1h 15m