Date: January 15, 2026
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes
Severity: Minor

LinkedIn publishing and analytics were disrupted for approximately one hour. During the affected window (13:45–14:40 UTC), the platform success rate for LinkedIn dropped to 66.5%, meaning thousands of scheduled posts and analytics requests failed. Some users also experienced brief issues connecting LinkedIn Profiles, which resolved on its own.

LinkedIn's servers began returning 503 (Service Unavailable) errors, causing failures in all API requests to LinkedIn including publishing posts and retrieving analytics data. This was a third-party infrastructure issue outside of Buffer's control.

The issue resolved automatically as LinkedIn's servers recovered. We communicated the incident on our status page and monitored until error rates returned to normal and platform performance stabilized.

This incident was caused by a third-party outage and could not have been prevented on our end. Our monitoring detected the increase in errors quickly, allowing us to communicate proactively with customers via the status page before receiving widespread reports.