Netlify outage, May 2026: Elevated Build Failures
Netlify reported and resolved an incident: Elevated Build Failures. It lasted 4.8 hours.
OKResolved
From Netlify's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 4.8 hours
- Impact
- minor
- Affected
- Build Pipeline, Collaborative Deploy Previews
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.
- investigating
We are currently experiencing an increased level of build failures related to downstream issues with GitHub beginning at 06:00 UTC. Any impacted users can attempt to retry their deploys as a workaround while we continue to investigate this issue.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 4.8 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.
The full guide: what to do when a service you rely on is down
Other Netlify incidents
- Delays in build logs appearing in the UI, resolved after 9 hours
- 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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