Epic Games outage on September 17, 2026: Matchmaking issues in Fortnite
Epic Games reported an incident affecting Epic Games for 23 minutes on 17 September 2026, from 17:16 to 17:39 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by Epic Games
- Started
- 17:16
- 17 Sep 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 17:39
- 17 Sep 2026 UTC
- Duration
- 23m
- 23 minutes
- Impact
- Minor
- as rated by Epic Games
- Updates
- 2
- posted by Epic Games
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Epic Games
Matchmaking issues in Fortnite
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Official
Monitoring
The matchmaking issues are being resolved, and players should now be able to get into matches. If you're still experiencing an issue, try requeuing again.
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Official
Resolved
This incident has been resolved.
"Official" rows are quoted from Epic Games's public status page, status.epicgames.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
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