What Happened
Vercel experienced an outage on May 5, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 9 hours 25 minutes.
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Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 17:14 | Monitoring | All systems are operational. We are continuing to monitor the backfill process, which is expected to take a couple of hours. New data is being processed as expected. |
| 17:12 | Monitoring | We are continuing to monitor for any further issues. |
| 16:50 | Monitoring | Impacted services have recovered. We are continuing to monitoring, while backfilling remaining missing data. |
| 16:37 | Identified | Reading data from impacted services has recovered. We are working to backfill any missing data in Observability. |
| 16:30 | Identified | We are seeing services start to recover as we incrementally apply the fix. |
| 15:58 | Identified | We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. |
| 15:15 | Identified | We've identified an issue where various services in the Vercel dashboard, API, and CLI are failing to load data. These services include Observability, Speed Insights, Alerts, Usage, Web Analytics, ... |
| 00:13 | Monitoring | A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. |
| 00:10 | Identified | We are experiencing increased error rates with Workflows running on Vercel. We have identified the issue and are implementing a fix. |
| 00:41 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 9 hours 25 minutes. Vercel runs on AWS — check those status pages if you experienced cascading issues.
Resolution
Vercel has recovered and is now operational.
What To Do Next
- View Vercel live status and outage history
- Set up alerts to get notified instantly next time Vercel has an issue
- Compare Vercel reliability with other services
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