Santander UK Outage on October 31, 2026 at 06:01 PM UTC
Incident report for the Santander UK (santander.co.uk) outage on October 31, 2026 at 06:01 PM UTC. This page is the canonical incident summary and outage details record — outage timeline, outage duration, peak reports, and what caused this incident (where known) plus how detected the event. For deeper post mortem analysis once available, the operator's own status page is usually the source of record.
Santander UK (santander.co.uk) experienced a 4h service disruption on October 31, 2026, starting at October 31, 2026 at 06:01 PM UTC and resolving at October 31, 2026 at 10:01 PM UTC. During the incident window, 5 of 6 automated HTTPS probes failed, confirming the outage. Among checks that did succeed, average response time was 681ms. The extended duration historically correlates with cloud-provider or DNS-level incidents rather than application-layer issues.
Incident details
Our checking infrastructure ran 6 automated HTTPS probes during this window (October 31, 2026 at 05:01 PM UTC through October 31, 2026 at 11:01 PM UTC). Of those, 5 failed (HTTP error, timeout, or DNS failure), confirming the outage. We use a dual-signal monitoring pipeline that combines automated HTTPS probes with crowd-sourced user reports to detect and verify outages.
Other recent banking outages
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