Is Adyen down?
Updated Oct 08, 2026 16:38 UTC. StatusBird re-checks Adyen's status page every 2 minutes.
- Current state
- Operational
- Changed
- Aug 18, 2026 20:07 UTC
- Held for
- 50 days 20 hours
Adyen is currently operational as of Oct 08, 2026 16:38 UTC, with no outage reported on its official status page. StatusBird reads Adyen's status page every 2 minutes and, on the Pro plan, alerts subscribers by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord within that cycle; the free email alert on this page covers major and critical outages with no account.
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Adyen uptime and incident history
30-day uptime, from checks every 2 minutes.
Over the past 90 days StatusBird recorded 0 major or critical Adyen incidents totalling 0 minutes of downtime, for 100.00% availability and a A+ reliability grade, across 64,513 independent checks. Full history: Adyen reliability report.
Adyen's 90-day uptime of 100.00% is above the Payments category average of 99.88% across the 11 services StatusBird monitors in that category.
Adyen risk in the next 24 hours
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any Adyen degradation in the next 24 hours at 15% (elevated) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 8% (elevated). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often Adyen has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.
- 1 degraded-or-worse episodes in the last 180 days
- no major outages in the last 180 days
- runs on cloudflare, which is in a major incident now; downstream services misbehave about twice as often in the following hour
Scored Oct 08, 2026 16:36 UTC, and rescored every 10 minutes. Method: how StatusBird measures and scores.
How do I get notified when Adyen has an outage?
Three options, from free to full coverage. Plan details are as published on StatusBird's pricing page and status.adyen.com as of October 08, 2026.
- Free email alert on this page. The form above emails you when Adyen enters a major or critical outage and again when it recovers. No account, no card.
- A StatusBird account. The free plan monitors 1 service with a live dashboard and a day-after incident digest. Pro ($29/month) checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, with quiet hours and per-service thresholds; Business is $49/month and Agency $99/month. Create a free account.
- Adyen's own status page. status.adyen.com offers the subscription options on status.adyen.com, where available. It is the official record and worth subscribing to alongside any monitor; it updates when Adyen confirms an incident.
Full guide: Best downtime alert services for online store owners (2026).
About Adyen
Enterprise payment platform used by large-scale e-commerce brands. Adyen outages can halt payment processing across multiple sales channels simultaneously.
StatusBird monitors Adyen every 2 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When an outage or degradation is detected, StatusBird sends instant alerts so you can act before your customers notice. The 30-day uptime percentage and incident history above reflect live data from our monitoring network.
Adyen last five incidents
Every non-operational episode StatusBird measured in the last 90 days, newest first, labelled by the worst status reached. The availability figures above count major and critical outages only.
| Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Worst status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2026 20:03 | Aug 18, 2026 20:07 | 4 minutes | degraded |
1 episode in total over the last 90 days, 0 of them major or critical.
What to do when Adyen is down
First, confirm it is actually Adyen and not your store. Then contain the damage and communicate. Here is exactly how to do that during a Adyen outage, plus what usually breaks and how long incidents tend to last.
How do I confirm Adyen is actually down?
Check two independent sources before changing anything in your store. First, StatusBird's live Adyen status page, which is based on independent checks every 2 minutes. Second, Adyen's own status page at status.adyen.com. If the official page still shows green, do not assume you are wrong: vendors often acknowledge incidents well after they start. If both look clean, the problem is more likely your store's configuration or a specific integration.
What does a Adyen outage look like?
- Customers report card declines or payment errors at checkout despite valid cards
- Checkout spinner hangs or times out at the payment step
- Sudden drop in completed orders while site traffic stays normal
- Adyen Customer Area dashboard slow or unreachable
- Refunds and captures stuck in a pending state
What breaks in your store
An Adyen outage hits the most critical point of your store: payment authorization. Customers can fill their carts and reach checkout, but card and wallet payments fail to authorize, time out, or return gateway errors, so orders cannot complete. If Adyen also powers your in-store terminals, physical card payments fail at the same time. Refunds, captures, and payout processing through Adyen are also delayed until service recovers.
For context, Adyen has had no major incidents in the last 90 days of StatusBird's independent monitoring (100.0% availability), so a real outage is unusual. That makes it easy to mistake one for a problem on your end, which is why confirming first matters.
What to do during the outage
- Check status.adyen.com to confirm the outage and which payment methods or regions are affected.
- Temporarily enable an alternative payment method not routed through Adyen, such as PayPal, if your platform supports it.
- Add a banner at checkout telling customers payments are temporarily unavailable and inviting them to retry shortly.
- Capture failed-checkout customer emails so you can invite them back with a recovery message once payments work.
- Hold refund and capture operations until Adyen recovers rather than retrying repeatedly and risking duplicates.
These steps follow the same logic Google codifies in its Site Reliability Engineering chapter on managing incidents: establish what is actually happening, contain the damage, and communicate clearly while the incident is still running.
Frequently asked questions
Does an Adyen outage affect my checkout?
Yes, directly. If Adyen is your payment gateway, customers cannot complete card or wallet payments while it is down, even though the rest of your site works. Any payment method routed through a different provider, such as a standalone PayPal integration, may still function.
Were customers charged for orders that failed during the Adyen outage?
Usually not, because a failed authorization means no charge went through, but some customers may see temporary pending holds from attempted authorizations. Those holds normally drop off automatically within a few days. After recovery, reconcile your Adyen transaction list against your store orders to catch any payments that succeeded without creating an order.
After the outage
Once Adyen recovers, verify the affected workflows end to end rather than trusting the status page. Note the start and end times while they are fresh: if you are on a paid Adyen plan with an SLA, documented downtime is what a service credit claim is built on. See how to claim SLA credits for the process.
How this data is measured
StatusBird checks Adyen's status every 2 minutes, around the clock, independently of the vendor. The availability figure counts major and critical outages only; minor degradation is excluded so numbers are not skewed by vendors that report small blips near-continuously. Grades run from A+ to F. See the live numbers on the Adyen reliability page and current status on the Adyen status page, or browse all 84 service grades.
This playbook was published separately until September 2026. It now lives here, alongside the live Adyen status it applies to.
Adyen status FAQ
Is Adyen down right now?
No. Adyen is operational in StatusBird's independent monitoring. That state began Aug 18, 2026 at 20:07 UTC and has lasted 50 days 20 hours. Last checked Oct 08, 2026 at 16:38 UTC.
How often does Adyen go down?
StatusBird recorded zero major or critical Adyen incidents in the last 90 days, at 100.00% availability and a A+ reliability grade. Minor degradation is excluded from that figure.
How long do Adyen outages usually last?
StatusBird measured no major or critical Adyen outages in the last 90 days. Counting every non-operational episode, including degraded performance, the average length was 4 minutes.
What is the chance Adyen has a problem in the next 24 hours?
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any Adyen degradation in the next 24 hours at 15% (elevated) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 8% (elevated). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often Adyen has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.
What should I do when Adyen goes down?
Confirm the outage is on Adyen's side rather than in your store, protect whatever the outage is breaking, and tell affected customers before they find out the hard way. The full step-by-step playbook for a Adyen outage is on this page, under 'What to do when Adyen is down'.
How do I get notified when Adyen goes down?
Use the free email alert form on this page, which needs no account and covers major and critical outages. Or open a StatusBird account: the free plan monitors 1 service with a next-day digest, and Pro at $29 a month checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, or subscribe to Adyen's own status page at status.adyen.com.
What should I do when Adyen goes down? The full playbook is on this page.
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"Every figure we publish comes from the same 2-minute checks that trigger our customers' alerts. We publish the data exactly as we measured it, and anyone is free to cite it."
Sydney Murphy, founder of StatusBird
Cite this data: StatusBird monitoring data, https://statusbird.io/status/adyen, accessed October 08, 2026. See the methodology for how these numbers are measured.
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