# Is Ably down?

> Ably is operational. Checked 2026-11-01 19:54 UTC.

- Official status page: https://status.ably.com
- Web page: https://outages.cc/ably
- JSON: https://outages.cc/api/v1/providers/ably
- RSS: https://outages.cc/feed.xml?providers=ably

## Active incidents

Ably reports no active incident. Status pages can lag the start of a problem by a few minutes.

## Last 90 days

9 incidents on 9 of the last 90 days.

- [Ably: Transient load-balancer issue in us-west-1](https://outages.cc/outages/ably-woehef7lbk.md): Resolved, started 2026-10-30 16:48 UTC, lasted 1 min. Between 16:27-16:35 UTC, connection attempts to us-west-1 had an ~18% chance of being refused with an error due to a network load balancer issue. An Ably SDK will have been automatically retried to a fallback region, so an end user will have experienced no impact other than a sl…
- [Ably: Elevated connection errors in us-east-1](https://outages.cc/outages/ably-25wxy35zisq.md): Resolved, started 2026-10-25 21:24 UTC, lasted 14 h 21 min. us-east-1 is reenabled and the service is operating normally. The root cause has been confirmed to be a defective Network Load Balancer that was causing a small fraction of connection attempts in the region to fail. We are awaiting a postmortem from AWS on the issue, and will pu…
- [Ably: issue with rewind=1 and persist-last in some situations](https://outages.cc/outages/ably-36iikv3zmc.md): Resolved, started 2026-10-20 13:00 UTC, lasted 1 min. Between about 14:00 UTC on the 20th and 17:00 on the 21st, on channels with the persist last message (https://ably.com/docs/channels#rules) channel rule enabled, attachments with `rewind=1` in situations where the most recent message was published over two minutes ago but still …
- [Ably: MongoDB ingress rule issues](https://outages.cc/outages/ably-1wn1t5p393y.md): Resolved, started 2026-10-16 13:00 UTC, lasted 1 min. Between 10:35 and 12:20 UTC today, MongoDB ingress rules may have experienced errors publishing changestream events. If you were affected by this, please contact support@ably.com.
- [Ably: Elevated API Errors](https://outages.cc/outages/ably-zplxlydj26.md): Resolved, started 2026-10-01 15:36 UTC, lasted 27 min. On October 1, a distributed denial-of-service \(DDoS\) attack caused elevated token-request errors across all Ably Realtime regions for approximately six minutes and intermittent unavailability of [ably.com](http://ably.com). We restored token-request service by increasing capac…
- [Ably: Ably documentation pages - ably.com/docs](https://outages.cc/outages/ably-htnutu6b4x.md): Resolved, started 2026-09-07 11:25 UTC, lasted 7 min. This incident has been resolved.
- [Ably: Elevated API Errors - LiveObjects](https://outages.cc/outages/ably-p0dmsz24ge.md): Resolved, started 2026-08-28 12:08 UTC, lasted 1 h 24 min. This incident has been resolved.
- [Ably: Elevated Errors in ap-southeast-1](https://outages.cc/outages/ably-1h6573rn75z.md): Resolved, started 2026-08-20 19:29 UTC, lasted 55 min. This incident has been resolved.
- [Ably: Elevated Error Rate in ap-southeast-1](https://outages.cc/outages/ably-6oadvyoz7e.md): Resolved, started 2026-08-20 19:07 UTC, lasted 3 min. This incident has been resolved.