Netlify outage, August 2026: Increased Latency in IAD Region on Global Network

Netlify reported and resolved an incident: Increased Latency in IAD Region on Global Network. It lasted 1.3 hours.

Resolved

From Netlify's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
1.3 hours
Impact
minor
Affected
High-Performance Edge Network, Edge Functions, Netlify Image CDN

Why it happened

Netlify has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

This incident on the Netlify status page

Timeline

Newest first. From Netlify's official status page, in their words.

  1. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoring

    Request latency across the IAD region has returned to normal levels, and we are continuing to monitor the situation.

  3. investigating

    We're experiencing increased latency on a subset of CDN nodes in the IAD region. We are currently investigating this issue.

What this means for a business (and what to check now)

  • Retry anything that failed during the 1.3 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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