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Perplexity outage: Connector connectivity issues

Perplexity reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 24, 2026, 23:39 UTC. It has since been resolved.

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Aug 24, 2026, 23:39 UTC
started
Jun 5, 2026, 01:40 UTC
resolved
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Timeline

updates from Perplexity's status page ↗
  1. resolvedJun 5, 2026, 01:40 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringJun 5, 2026, 01:00 UTC

    Connectors are recovering and getting back to normal for all users.

  3. investigatingJun 4, 2026, 21:10 UTC

    We have identified connector issues that are currently impacting users.

What APIStatus.watch saw

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

How often does Perplexity have incidents?

Perplexity reported 24 incidents in the last 90 days, 18 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 37 min. See Perplexity's uptime and incident history

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