Mailgun outage: Intermittent Email Validation Errors

Affected components

• API
• Email Validation

1. resolvedFeb 25, 2026, 21:45 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. monitoringFeb 25, 2026, 21:36 UTC

   A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

3. identifiedFeb 25, 2026, 20:25 UTC

   We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

4. identifiedFeb 25, 2026, 19:47 UTC

   We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

5. identifiedFeb 25, 2026, 19:30 UTC

   We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

6. identifiedFeb 25, 2026, 19:29 UTC

   Domain verification is also impacted. Increased chances of domain verification failing. The issue has been identified and engineering is actively working on a fix.

7. investigatingFeb 25, 2026, 19:29 UTC

   We are continuing to investigate this issue.

8. investigatingFeb 25, 2026, 19:10 UTC

   We are currently investigating this issue.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Mailgun's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

Other services with incidents at the same time

Overlapping incidents aren't necessarily related.

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• npm: Degraded performance with package installationMinor · Feb 25, 2026, 18:43 UTC

How often does Mailgun have incidents?

Mailgun reported 10 incidents in the last 90 days, 5 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 17m. See Mailgun's uptime and incident history