Service disruption at the Northern Virginia (US East 4) data center

What to do

• Check whether you use Kinsta Ashburn, Virginia, US data centers in us. Check your stack

  Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.

• Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 7h 21m it lasted.

  Anything that failed between 2026-10-08 14:42 UTC and 2026-10-08 22:03 UTC may need a replay.

• Subscribe to Kinsta's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed

  https://down.guide/feed?provider=kinsta works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Root cause

We have identified the cause of the issue, and we are currently working on a fix.

Updates from Kinsta 4

1. investigatingOct 8, 2026, 2:42 PM UTC

   Our Engineers are investigating reports of a service disruption affecting sites in the Northern Virginia (US East 4) data center. We are working to restore service to affected sites as quickly as possible.

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2. identifiedOct 8, 2026, 4:38 PM UTC

   We have identified the cause of the issue, and we are currently working on a fix.

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3. monitoringOct 8, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC

   A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. If your site was affected and is still experiencing difficulties, please contact our support team via chat in MyKinsta, or by emailing support@kinsta.com.

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4. resolvedOct 8, 2026, 10:03 PM UTC

   This has been resolved.

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Corrections

None so far.

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