Shopify Cyber Monday outage - December 1, 2025
On December 1, 2025, Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year, Shopify suffered a widespread outage that left many merchants unable to access their stores or process orders. At a time when every minute of uptime translates directly into revenue, the disruption caused immediate concern across the ecommerce community. StatusGator detected the issue within minutes, sending an Early Warning Signal 10 minutes before Shopify published its official acknowledgement.