Netlify outage, May 2026: Degraded performance with Create API
Netlify reported and resolved an incident: Degraded performance with Create API. It lasted 25 minutes.
OKResolved
From Netlify's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Impact
- minor
- Affected
- Netlify Create API
Why it happened
Netlify has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.
Timeline
Newest first. From Netlify's official status page, in their words.
- resolved
The incident with performance degradation for create.netlify.com has be resolved.
- monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- identified
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- investigating
We’re seeing degraded performance with create.netlify.com. Some customers are seeing issues with latency or 500 errors while accessing the create.netlify.com.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 25 minutes.
- Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
- If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.
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