Okta is the largest independent identity and access management platform, providing SSO (Single Sign-On), MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication), lifecycle management, and API access management for over 18,000 customers including major enterprises and government agencies. Okta serves as the identity layer for organizations, managing employee access to thousands of SaaS applications and corporate resources. The company's workforce identity and customer identity (via Auth0, now an Okta subsidiary) products protect over 1 billion user identities across the platform.
Okta outages are among the most impactful in enterprise IT because they affect authentication across all connected applications simultaneously. Common causes include core authentication service degradation under peak login loads, MFA delivery failures through SMS or push notification channels, and SAML/OIDC assertion processing delays. The 2022 Lapsus$ breach highlighted supply chain risks when an identity provider is compromised. Regional cell outages affect specific customer tenants without impacting the entire platform.
When Okta goes down, employees at thousands of enterprises cannot log into any of their work applications — email, CRM, HR systems, development tools, and cloud consoles all become inaccessible simultaneously. SSO failures cascade across every application behind Okta, effectively shutting down corporate productivity. MFA verification failures lock users out even of applications that would otherwise accept password-only authentication. The enterprise-wide blast radius makes Okta outages among the most costly per minute across all SaaS platforms.
Use this page to check Okta availability. Okta outages prevent SSO login across all connected enterprise applications. Check status.okta.com for official per-cell status information. Okta operates multiple independent cells, so your organization's cell may be affected while others remain operational.
If you cannot access multiple work applications simultaneously, your organization's Okta SSO may be experiencing an outage. All applications federated through Okta depend on it for authentication. Check with your IT department and verify status.okta.com. If only one application is affected, the issue is likely with that specific application rather than Okta.
Okta outages are among the most expensive SaaS failures because they block access to every application behind SSO. Employees cannot access email, CRM, development tools, or cloud resources. Productivity drops to near zero for affected organizations. Companies with thousands of employees can lose millions of dollars per hour of Okta downtime.
Configure backup authentication methods that bypass SSO for critical applications. Maintain emergency break-glass accounts with direct application access. Implement desktop password caching for offline scenarios. Consider a multi-IdP strategy where the most critical applications support alternative authentication providers alongside Okta.
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