Vercel outage, July 2026: Delays Processing Builds

Vercel reported and resolved an incident: Delays Processing Builds. It lasted 1.2 hours.

What happened

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

Vercel marked it resolved at 9 July 2026, 5:13 am without a written explanation of the fix.

Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Vercel's official status page, in their words.

9 July 2026, 4:05 aminvestigating
We've identified an issue where some customers may experience delays in builds starting and/or builds stuck in an initializing state. We are currently investigating this issue and will provide additional updates as they become available.
9 July 2026, 4:40 aminvestigating
We are seeing signs of recovery and the affected build queue has started to drain. Some customers may continue to experience delayed build starts or builds stuck in an initializing state while recovery continues. We will provide additional updates as they become available.
9 July 2026, 5:13 ammonitoring
Build queues have returned to normal levels, and build processing should be restored. We are monitoring to ensure the service remains stable. We will provide additional updates as they become available.
9 July 2026, 5:13 ammonitoring
The issue affecting build queue processing has been resolved, and build queues have returned to normal. Builds are now processing as expected. We are continuing our internal root cause analysis.
9 July 2026, 5:13 amresolved
This incident has been resolved.

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