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Disruption of Gengo Translation Orders - API Timeouts Affecting Order Submission (Strings EU and US DC)

Partial outage Lasted 1d 20h · started · Phrase's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
Ordering, Ordering
Regions
eu, us

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Updates from Phrase 2

  1. investigating

    We are currently experiencing intermittent errors when communicating with Gengo, one of our third-party translation vendors. This is causing timeouts and 502 errors on price calculation and order submission for translation orders routed through Gengo, affecting both EU and US data centers. Gengo has confirmed the issue on their end and is investigating.

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  2. resolved

    Gengo has resolved the underlying issue on their end. Price calculations and translation order submissions to Gengo are now working again.

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Corrections

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Questions about DWN-e22573f203

Is Phrase still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-09-02 11:46 UTC. For Phrase's live state, see https://down.guide/phrase.

How long did it last?

1d 20h, from 2026-08-31 15:06 UTC to 2026-09-02 11:46 UTC, by the times Phrase posted.

What was affected?

Phrase named Ordering, Ordering in eu, us.

What caused it?

Phrase hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Phrase's official status page, https://status.phrase.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.