2025: The year of the global cloud outage

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    Workday Outage History

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    There were 5 Workday outages since October 2024 which are summarized below, including incident details, duration, and resolution information.

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    : Workday outage disrupts website and app for tenants

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged: No
    Outage ended: (1 hour and 49 minutes)

    Workday experienced a global outage affecting access to its website, mobile app, and login across multiple tenants. Users reported pages not loading, timeouts, and sign-in errors, with services unavailable across regions. The outage began at and lasted about 1 hour and 49 minutes, ending at . The incident coincided with a surge in user reports in the 18:30 to 19:15 UTC window, indicating broad impact across tenant environments including website, app, and authentication.

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    : Workday global outage disrupts login and HR services

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged: No
    Outage ended: (7 hours and 50 minutes)

    Workday experienced a global outage that prevented users from logging in and using core HR, payroll, and financial applications. Users across multiple regions reported that Workday was unavailable, with errors such as 'Workday is currently unavailable' and pages failing to load. The outage began at and persisted through the evening, ending by .

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    : Workday brief global outage with 500 errors

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged: No
    Outage ended: (7 minutes)

    Workday experienced a brief global outage marked by 500 Internal Server Error responses reported by users in multiple regions. The incident began at and lasted about 6 minutes, ending at . Reports spanned locations including the United Kingdom and India, among others, indicating a worldwide impact during the short window. StatusGator detected the issue at .

    Workday has no official public status page during this event, so there were no provider updates to communicate the outage. The brief disruption appears to have been resolved within minutes, but the multi-region reports suggest a global impact despite the short duration.

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    : Workday outage disrupts login and service globally

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged: No
    Outage ended: (1 hour and 9 minutes)

    The outage began at and was resolved by , lasting about 1 hour and 9 minutes. Workday users around the world experienced login failures, service interruptions, and pages failing to load as authentication and core services were affected. Reports described users seeing a message like 'Workday is currently unavailable' across regions including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, and Brazil, indicating broad geographic impact. StatusGator detected the issue based on user reports before any official acknowledgment and continued to monitor as the incident unfolded.

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    : Workday login outage hits users worldwide

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged: No
    Outage ended: (2 hours and 23 minutes)

    The Workday sign-in service experienced a global outage with users reporting a Shared Session Failure error when attempting to sign in. The incident began around and was resolved by , lasting roughly 2 hours and 22 minutes. Reports spanned multiple regions, with users on web and mobile unable to sign in and access payroll, HR, and time-tracking features.

    StatusGator detected the issue at , ahead of any official acknowledgment from Workday. Workday does not publish an official status page, so there were no public updates during the incident. The outage affected sign-in for users worldwide across various regions, with multiple reports describing the Shared Session Failure error.

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