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Is Epic Games down?

Degraded performanceunchanged since 3 h ago · since 2026-09-16 21:20 UTC

Fortnite, the Epic Games Store and online services.

Current status
Degraded performance
90-day uptime
100.00 %
Incidents (90d)
1
Last incident
just now

Severity over 90 days

Total incident time
12 h 42 min
Average recovery
none
Longest incident
9 h 22 min

From the incidents published by the provider. Maintenance excluded.

Downtime over 90 days

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90 days agotoday
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Incident history

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Maintenance · ongoing2026-09-22 06:00 UTC

EOS Maintenance

Duration: 0 min · official post

Epic Online Services is scheduled for maintenance on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, 6 am UTC. During the maintenance window, there will be degraded availability for up to 90 minutes for the following services: - Sessions - Lobbies During this window, existing player sessions will time out and clients will be disconnected. New session creation, invites, searching, and matchmaking will also be tempora

Maintenance · ongoing2026-09-17 08:00 UTC

Fortnite: Downtime for v42.20 Update

Duration: 0 min · official post

⏰ Scheduled downtime for v42.20 begins at 4 AM ET (8 AM UTC). Matchmaking will be disabled 30 minutes prior.

Major · ongoing2026-09-16 21:10 UTC

Trader Verification outage

Duration: 3 h 20 min · official post

The Trader Verification process is currently broken and is impacting EGS Dev Portal and FAB.

Major · ongoing2026-09-16 15:09 UTC

Fortnite Login Issues on Xbox

Duration: 9 h 22 min · official post

We're investigating an issue that is preventing players on Xbox from logging into Fortnite. We will let you know as soon as this is resolved.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Epic Games down right now?

As of the last check (2026-09-17 00:30 UTC), Epic Games reports “Degraded performance” on its official status page. 4 ongoing incidents, latest: EOS Maintenance.

What is Epic Games's uptime over the last 90 days?

Epic Games shows 100.00% uptime over the last 90 days, across 1 published incident(s).

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