Pinterest API outage on February 17, 2026
What changed
Pinterest's status page lists an outage of Sign up and login, Profile, Home, Pins, Boards, Ads Manager and The Pinterest API on February 17, 2026, due to what it called a related incident. It was first posted as investigating at 12:51 PST, Pinterest reported a partial recovery at 12:58 PST and marked it fully resolved at 15:32 PST. Pinterest did not publish a cause.
What it means
For about two and a half hours on the afternoon of February 17, 2026 (Pacific time), Pinterest reported an outage of the Pinterest API along with Pins, Boards, Profile, Home, Ads Manager and sign up and login, so scheduled Pins and API calls could fail.
Who is affected
Scheduling tools and apps that published or read Pins, boards or analytics through the Pinterest API during the incident, advertisers in Ads Manager and people logging in to Pinterest.
What to do by 17 Feb 2026
Check whether Pins scheduled for that window published, and retry failed jobs with backoff instead of tight loops during a reported outage.
What this means for you
On the afternoon of February 17, 2026, Pinterest went down for about two and a half hours, including the connection that scheduling apps use to post for you. Pins planned for that time may not have been posted, and logging in may have failed. Pinterest fixed it the same day. If a Pin from that window is missing, post it again.
The details
- Components listed: Sign up and login, Profile, Home, Pins, Boards, Ads Manager, The Pinterest API.
- Status: outage, "due to a related incident".
- Timeline (Pacific time):
- 12:51 PST, investigating: "Our engineering team is working to identify the cause".
- 12:58 PST, monitoring: "We've implemented a solution to reduce the number of people affected and have partially recovered."
- 15:32 PST, resolved: "should no longer be experiencing an outage."
- Cause: not stated on the status page beyond "a related incident".
- Duration: about 2 hours 41 minutes between the first and last status posts; the problem may have started before the first post.
What to do next
- Business owners: If a Pin was scheduled for the afternoon of February 17, 2026 (Pacific time), check that it is live.
- Marketers and agencies: Check client Pins scheduled for that window and republish any that failed.
- Developers: Watch the "The Pinterest API" component on pintereststatus.com and back off retries while it reports an outage.
Primary sources
- Pinterest Status: Sign up and login, Profile, Home, Pins, Boards, Ads Manager, The Pinterest API outage
- Pinterest Status: incident history (RSS)
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