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Bitbucket outage: Outbound Email, Mobile Push Notifications, and Support Ticket Delivery Impacting All Cloud Products

Bitbucket reported this critical-impact incident on its official status page on Dec 27, 2025, 04:42 UTC. It was resolved after 38 min.

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Dec 27, 2025, 04:42 UTC
started
Dec 27, 2025, 05:20 UTC
resolved
38 min
duration
Critical
impact

Affected components

  • Email delivery
  • Signup
  1. postmortemJan 30, 2026, 04:08 UTC

    ### Summary On **December 27, 2025**, between **02:48 UTC and 05:20 UTC**, some Atlassian cloud customers experienced failures in sending and receiving emails and mobile notifications. Core Jira and Confluence functionality remained available. The issue was triggered when **TLS certificates used by Atlassian’s monitoring infrastructure expired**, causing parts of our metrics pipeline to stop accepting traffic. Services responsible for email and mobile notifications had a critical path dependency on monitoring path leading to service disruptions. All impacted services were fully restored by **05:20 UTC**, around **2.5 hours** after customer impact began. ### IMPACT During the impact window, customers experienced: * **Outbound product email failures** \(notifications and other product emails did not send\). * **Identity and account flow failures** where emails were required \(e.g. sign‑ups, password resets, one‑time‑password / step‑up challenges\). * **Jira and Confluence mobile pu

  2. resolvedDec 27, 2025, 05:20 UTC

    We have successfully mitigated the incident and all affected services are now fully operational. Our teams have verified that normal functionality has been restored across all areas. Thank you for your patience and understanding while we worked to resolve this issue.

  3. monitoringDec 27, 2025, 04:42 UTC

    We have taken steps to mitigate the issue and are seeing recovery in the affected services. Our teams will continue to closely monitor the situation and are actively working to confirm that all services are fully restored. We will provide further updates as we make additional progress.

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Bitbucket outage on Dec 27, 2025: Outbound Email, Mobile Push Notifications, and Support Ticket Delivery Impacting All Cloud Products · APIStatus.watch