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NormalOfficial status last polled Sep 30, 2026 20:18 UTCwww.mercadopago.comOfficial status page

A leading digital payments and financial services platform in Latin America, originating from the e-commerce giant Mercado Libre.

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Is Mercado Pago down right now?

No. Mercado Pago 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 Sep 30, 2026 20:24 UTC

Normal

Mercado Pago is operating normally

As of Sep 30, 2026 20:24 UTC

No elevated reports in the last 15 minutes. Baseline 5 reports/hour.

Reports 24h

0

Last incident

Sep 29, 2026 21:40 UTC

Trend

0/15m

Baseline

5/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 Mercado Pago.

7

Incident days

23

No recorded incident

13h 46m

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 Mercado Pago. Hover a day for detail.

Sep 1Sep 6Sep 11Sep 16Sep 21Sep 2601234

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

7

Days with incidents

2 incidents

Busiest day

13h 46m

Recorded duration

Report volume

0 reports in last 24H

08:15 PM11:45 PM03:15 AM06:45 AM10:15 AM01:45 PM05:15 PM00.511.52baseline 1

Issue types

No data

Top cities

No location data

Top providers

No provider data

Auto-drafted postmortem

Mercado Pago outage on September 29 — 1h 19m disruption

Sep 29, 08:20 PM → Sep 29, 09:40 PM · 1h 19m · medium

An incident affecting Mercado Pago was detected via automated monitoring signals. The issue resulted in a medium-severity disruption to the service. The incident was resolved on September 29, 2026, at 21:40 UTC.

Peak reports
0
in 15 min
Total reports
0
during outage
Duration
1h 19m
until recovery

Impact

During the 1 hour and 19 minute period of disruption, Mercado Pago experienced a medium-severity incident. This incident was identified through automated signals, including the vendor's status page and synthetic probes. No user-reported data was collected for this incident, and therefore no specific user-visible features, regions, or issue types can be identified from user reports.

Outage timeline

  1. Sep 29, 08:20 PM

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

  2. Sep 29, 08:20 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  3. Sep 29, 09:40 PM

    Signals cleared — incident resolved

Official updates

  1. Sep 29, 08:20 PM

    Mercado Pago status page acknowledged the incident.

    View official source
Draft auto-generated by PulseWatch when the incident resolved. Based on aggregated user-report signals.

Reliability

Detected by PulseWatch

30-day uptime

98.1%

90-day uptime

98.1%

Calculated from Mercado Pago'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

Scrub through detection, peak, status updates, and resolution.

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ResolvedMedium

Mercado Pago: 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.

9/29/2026, 8:20:26 PM · 1h 19m

08:20 PM09:40 PM
Detection9/29/2026, 8:20:26 PM · 1d ago

Detected — medium severity

Mercado Pago: 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.

ResolvedHigh

Mercado Pago: the vendor reports a major-impact incident on its own status page. Single origin, not independently confirmed. Users who watch Mercado Pago or have an alert rule on it can be alerted, labelled vendor-reported.

9/23/2026, 6:45:18 PM · 1h 20m

06:45 PM08:06 PM
Detection9/23/2026, 6:45:18 PM · 7d ago

Detected — high severity

Mercado Pago: the vendor reports a major-impact incident on its own status page. Single origin, not independently confirmed. Users who watch Mercado Pago or have an alert rule on it can be alerted, labelled vendor-reported.

ResolvedMedium

Mercado Pago: 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.

9/23/2026, 8:10:10 AM · 1h 30m

08:10 AM09:40 AM
Detection9/23/2026, 8:10:10 AM · 7d ago

Detected — medium severity

Mercado Pago: 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.

ResolvedHigh

Mercado Pago: the vendor reports a major-impact incident on its own status page. Single origin, not independently confirmed. Users who watch Mercado Pago or have an alert rule on it can be alerted, labelled vendor-reported.

9/22/2026, 3:40:21 PM · 1h 31m

03:40 PM05:12 PM
Detection9/22/2026, 3:40:21 PM · 8d ago

Detected — high severity

Mercado Pago: the vendor reports a major-impact incident on its own status page. Single origin, not independently confirmed. Users who watch Mercado Pago or have an alert rule on it can be alerted, labelled vendor-reported.

ResolvedMedium

Mercado Pago: 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.

9/21/2026, 8:06:02 AM · 3h 45m

08:06 AM11:51 AM
Detection9/21/2026, 8:06:02 AM · 9d ago

Detected — medium severity

Mercado Pago: 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.

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
5
Open threshold
3x

Official site

www.mercadopago.com