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Alpaca Incident History

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checked Oct 24, 2026 8:08 AM UTC · Alpaca's official status page

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Alpaca incident history

14 reports published by Alpaca in the last 30 days

When Alpaca breaks, it is typically resolved in 1h 1m — median across 4 resolved incidents over 30 days.

October 21, 2026

Issues on Exchange Availability

Last update
  1. resolvedOct 21 · 06:43 UTC

    We've resumed receiving overnight market data from Blue Ocean ATS (BOATS). We have re-enabled overnight fractional share trading for all correspondents.

Reported by Alpaca on their status page.

October 19, 2026

Brief API Timeouts

Last update
  1. resolvedOct 19 · 23:43 UTC

    From 6:15 PM to 6:22 PM ET, some API requests experienced elevated timeouts. Most affected requests were retried successfully. The issue is resolved, and all services have been operating normally since.

Reported by Alpaca on their status page.

October 15, 2026

3rd Party Outage affecting Market Data

Last update
  1. resolvedOct 15 · 18:46 UTC

    The incident has been resolved. Connectivity to our market data provider has been restored, and market data (IEX and SIP feeds) is updating normally. Fractional and notional share trading have been re-enabled. We apologize for any inconvenience this caused.

Reported by Alpaca on their status page.

October 10, 2026

Sandbox Latency

Last update
  1. resolvedOct 10 · 22:21 UTC

    Elevated latency affecting multiple sandbox services has been resolved. Service performance has returned to normal, and monitoring confirms recovery. Production services were not affected. We apologize for the disruption.

Reported by Alpaca on their status page.

Sandbox Latency

Last update
  1. ResolvedOct 10 · 22:21 UTC

    Elevated latency affecting multiple sandbox services has been resolved. Service performance has returned to normal, and monitoring confirms recovery. Production services were not affected. We apologize for the disruption.

Reported by Alpaca on their status page.

October 9, 2026

Delays in End-of-Day Position Reporting for a Subset of Accounts

Last update
  1. resolvedOct 9 · 09:25 UTC

    All daily EOD sync have been completed. This incident is now resolved.

Reported by Alpaca on their status page.

Delays in End-of-Day Position Reporting for a Subset of Accounts

Last update
  1. ResolvedOct 9 · 09:25 UTC

    All daily EOD sync have been completed. This incident is now resolved.

Reported by Alpaca on their status page.

October 7, 2026

Brief API Timeouts

Last update
  1. resolvedOct 7 · 16:32 UTC

    From 12:18 PM to 12:28 PM ET, multiple APIs experienced elevated timeouts(5xx error) . The issue is resolved, and we are investigating the root cause.

Reported by Alpaca on their status page.

Brief API Timeouts

Last update
  1. ResolvedOct 7 · 16:32 UTC

    From 12:18 PM to 12:28 PM ET, multiple APIs experienced elevated timeouts(5xx error) . The issue is resolved, and we are investigating the root cause.

Reported by Alpaca on their status page.

October 6, 2026

Scheduled Sandbox & Production maintenance on Saturday, October 10th, 2026.

Last update
  1. CompletedOct 10 · 11:19 UTC

    The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Reported by Alpaca on their status page.

September 30, 2026

Order processing delays

Last update
  1. resolvedSep 30 · 18:02 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Reported by Alpaca on their status page.

Order processing delays

Last update
  1. ResolvedSep 30 · 18:02 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Reported by Alpaca on their status page.

Scheduled Sandbox & Production maintenance on Saturday, October 3rd, 2026.

Last update
  1. CompletedOct 3 · 14:00 UTC

    The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Reported by Alpaca on their status page.

September 26, 2026

Intermittent Errors on Broker API Account and Position Endpoints

Last update
  1. resolvedSep 26 · 14:01 UTC

    Impact window was between 13:37-13:47 UTC. We have not observed any further issues since our last update, and service remains stable. We will continue to monitor the system closely, please do not hesitate to contact us if you experience any issues.

Reported by Alpaca on their status page.