Netlify outage, May 2026: Degraded performance with Create API
Netlify reported and resolved an incident: Degraded performance with Create API. It lasted 2.4 hours.
OKResolved
From Netlify's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 2.4 hours
- 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
This incident has been resolved.
- monitoring
We have resolved the issue causing elevated error rates in the Create API. Systems are now recovering, and we are monitoring closely.
- investigating
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 2.4 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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