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Is Klarna down right now?

No. Klarna has a current operational conclusion. Fresh official operational result confirmed by a healthy reachability check from the PulseWatch runtime (single region, HTTP reachability only).

Status as of Oct 8, 2026 22:00 UTC

Normal

Klarna is operating normally

As of Oct 8, 2026 22:00 UTC

No elevated reports in the last 15 minutes. Baseline 4 reports/hour.

Reports 24h

0

Last incident

Sep 18, 2026 08:40 UTC

Trend

0/15m

Baseline

4/hr

Observed health

Unknown

No samples qualify for a combined success and latency score.

Evidence strength

No current issue evidence

No current corroborated or observed finding.

Evidence describes support for an issue, not its outage probability.

How this score works

100 × successful samples within the latency target ÷ assessed samples. Targets use a historical operation-latency baseline and are heuristic. Server failures count as failed samples; successful responses without a qualified target are shown separately. Only named operations are measured. Vendor statements, report volume, forecasts and incident records do not add score points.

A component issue stays visible even when other operations pass. Forecasts are separate from current health.

30 days incident history

Daily incident severity and duration for Klarna.

1

Incident days

29

No recorded incident

6h 45m

Recorded duration

No recorded incident — health unknownLow or mediumHigh or critical
Recorded incidents remain visible regardless of current monitoring status. Days without records do not establish historical coverage or healthy service.
Showing available records within the selected range.

30-day outage frequency

Recorded incidents per day and recorded incident duration for Klarna. Hover a day for detail.

Sep 9Sep 14Sep 19Sep 24Sep 29Oct 401234

Green baseline markers mean no recorded incident. These records do not establish historical monitoring coverage or verified uptime.

1

Days with incidents

1 incident

Busiest day

6h 45m

Recorded duration

Report volume

0 reports in last 24H

10:00 PM01:30 AM05:00 AM08:30 AM12:00 PM03:30 PM07:00 PM00.511.52baseline 1

Issue types

No data

Top cities

No location data

Top providers

No provider data

Auto-drafted postmortem

Klarna outage on September 18 — 6h 44m disruption

Sep 18, 01:55 AM → Sep 18, 08:40 AM · 6h 44m · medium

A service disruption affecting Klarna was detected by automated monitoring systems. The incident, which was of medium severity, began on September 18 at 01:55 UTC. Service was fully restored on September 18 at 08:40 UTC.

Duration
6h 44m
tracked by PulseWatch

Impact

During the 6-hour and 44-minute disruption, Klarna experienced a medium-severity service incident. This event was identified through automated signals and the vendor's own status page. No user-reported data was collected for this incident, and therefore no information regarding specific affected features, regions, or issue types is available.

Incident timeline

  1. Sep 18, 01:55 AM

    PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (medium severity)

  2. Sep 18, 01:55 AM

    Status updated: possible issue

  3. Sep 18, 08:40 AM

    Signals cleared — incident resolved

Official updates

  1. Sep 18, 01:55 AM

    Klarna status page acknowledged the incident.

    View official source
Draft auto-generated by PulseWatch when the incident resolved. Based on the sources listed above.

Reliability

Detected by PulseWatch

30-day uptime

99.06%

90-day uptime

98.4%

Calculated from Klarna's detected incidents. Lower than the vendor's own reported SLA? That's the whole point — we measure what users actually experience.

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Incident timeline

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ResolvedMedium

Klarna: the vendor reports a minor-impact incident on its own status page. Single origin, not independently confirmed. At this stated impact it alerts no one until a second independent source agrees.

9/18/2026, 1:55:46 AM · 6h 44m

01:55 AM08:40 AM
Detection9/18/2026, 1:55:46 AM · 20d ago

Detected — medium severity

Klarna: the vendor reports a minor-impact incident on its own status page. Single origin, not independently confirmed. At this stated impact it alerts no one until a second independent source agrees.

ResolvedMedium

Klarna incident correlated across 1 signal group: official/vendor.

9/3/2026, 3:38:36 PM · 4h 48m

03:38 PM08:26 PM
Detection9/3/2026, 3:38:36 PM · 1mo ago

Detected — medium severity

Klarna incident correlated across 1 signal group: official/vendor.

ResolvedMedium

Klarna incident correlated across 1 signal group: official/vendor.

9/2/2026, 3:57:21 PM · 22h 29m

03:57 PM02:27 PM
Detection9/2/2026, 3:57:21 PM · 1mo ago

Detected — medium severity

Klarna incident correlated across 1 signal group: official/vendor.

ResolvedMedium

Klarna incident correlated across 1 signal group: official/vendor.

8/31/2026, 7:20:49 PM · 1h 31m

07:20 PM08:51 PM
Detection8/31/2026, 7:20:49 PM · 1mo ago

Detected — medium severity

Klarna incident correlated across 1 signal group: official/vendor.

ResolvedCritical

Klarna incident correlated across 1 signal group: official/vendor.

5/5/2026, 7:43:15 PM · 19 min

07:43 PM08:03 PM
Detection5/5/2026, 7:43:15 PM · 5mo ago

Detected — critical severity

Klarna incident correlated across 1 signal group: official/vendor.

DetectionPeakStatus updateResolvedCrowd warning

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Signal quality

Live signal

Status
Normal
Monitoring
Fresh official operational result confirmed by a healthy reachability check from the PulseWatch runtime (single region, HTTP reachability only).
Coverage
Verified against the vendor's own incident history
Reports (24h)
0
Baseline / hour
4
Open threshold
3x

Official site

www.klarna.com