Mailgun outage: Elevated 401 errors in US Region

Affected components

• API

1. resolvedMar 19, 2026, 18:53 UTC

   A fix has been deployed and systems are back to normal.

2. identifiedMar 19, 2026, 18:43 UTC

   Some requests may be incorrectly failing with 401 error codes in our US region.

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.

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How often does Mailgun have incidents?

Mailgun reported 8 incidents in the last 90 days, 3 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 1m. See Mailgun's uptime and incident history