Netlify outage, May 2026: Purges are Delayed on Primary Load Balancer
Netlify reported and resolved an incident: Purges are Delayed on Primary Load Balancer. It lasted 2.6 hours.
OKResolved
From Netlify's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 2.6 hours
- Impact
- minor
- Affected
- Standard Edge Network
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
This incident has been resolved.
- monitoring
A fix has been implemented, and we are monitoring the results.
- identified
We are currently experiencing a delay in cache purges, and some sites on our Standard Edge Network may be serving stale content. The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 2.6 hours.
- 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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- Netlify reports degraded performance, open, identified
- Elevated Build Errors and Agent Runner failures, resolved after 57 minutes
- Delays in build logs appearing in the UI, resolved after 11.3 hours
- Delayed Edge Functions and Functions logs, resolved after 3.9 hours
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