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MongoDB Atlas outage: Issue impacting Atlas Search availability on certain clusters

MongoDB Atlas reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 9, 2026, 16:29 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 48m.

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Oct 9, 2026, 16:29 UTC
started
Oct 9, 2026, 18:17 UTC
resolved
1h 48m
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • MongoDB Atlas Search

Timeline

updates from MongoDB Atlas's status page ↗
  1. resolvedOct 9, 2026, 18:17 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringOct 9, 2026, 17:09 UTC

    A fix has been deployed and we are monitoring.

  3. identifiedOct 9, 2026, 16:30 UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  4. investigatingOct 9, 2026, 16:29 UTC

    Ongoing Atlas Search incident known to cause mongot crashes, potential search and vector search outage, impacting a subset of search and vector search users in the Atlas fleet. We have identified the issue and are working on a fix.

What APIStatus.watch saw

  • Oct 9, 2026, 16:33 UTCoperational → degraded
  • Oct 9, 2026, 18:18 UTCdegraded → operational

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How often does MongoDB Atlas have incidents?

MongoDB Atlas reported 13 incidents in the last 90 days, 8 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 2h 31m. See MongoDB Atlas's uptime and incident history

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