Our monitors picked up what looks like a possible issue with Just Eat on the morning of 27 April 2026, so we thought we'd share what we're seeing and what it might mean for you.
What Our Monitors Are Showing
At around 04:12 UTC on 27 April, our uptime checks flagged an HTTP 503 error when trying to reach Just Eat's main service. A 503 is a "Service Unavailable" response — essentially the server saying it's temporarily unable to handle requests. From what we can see, this suggests the platform experienced a brief availability hiccup at that time.
As an independent monitoring service, all we can share is what our own checks detected. We don't have visibility into what caused the issue or how long it lasted beyond our initial flag. When we looked at Just Eat's official status page, we weren't able to pull detailed incident information from it, so we don't have a complete picture of the scale or duration of the outage from Just Eat's side.
It's worth noting that around the same time, reports emerged of issues with other major platforms, so it's possible there was some wider infrastructure event happening at that time — but that's speculation on our part.
What You Can Do in the Meantime
If you were trying to place an order during that window and hit an error, here are a few straightforward things to try:
- Wait a few minutes and refresh — if the issue was brief, the service should be back up now. Your browser or app cache might still be showing the error page, so a fresh reload often helps.
- Try a different device or browser — occasionally a local cache issue can make a problem seem worse than it is.
- Check your internet connection — not the most common culprit, but worth ruling out.
- Use the Just Eat app instead of the website, or vice versa — sometimes one route recovers faster than the other.
- Check Just Eat's status page — if there's an ongoing issue, they should have posted an update there by now.
What People Are Saying
We haven't seen widespread reports from users about this yet, which could suggest either that the issue was very brief or very localized. That said, incident reports can take a little while to surface, so if you experienced something, that's valuable data.
Keep an Eye on Just Eat with Uptrue
If you rely on Just Eat for regular orders, it might be worth adding it to your own monitoring watchlist. Uptrue lets you monitor any website or service for free — you'll get instant alerts if it goes down, so you're never caught off guard. It takes about 30 seconds to set up, and many people monitor their essential services this way.
What We Know Right Now
This is what our monitors detected at the time — but the situation may have already moved on. Just Eat's team likely identified and resolved the issue quickly, and their platform may well be running smoothly now. For the most up-to-date picture, check Just Eat's official status page or try placing an order to see if everything's working as normal.