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Netlify: Critical incident: Elevated HTTP 500 errors serving sites and the Netlify UI

Summary

Netlify recorded a critical incident starting at 2026-08-18 20:00 UTC, with a computed duration of 0 min and status resolved. Its update reports error pages for some Netlify-hosted site visitors and dashboard users between 20:02 and 20:08 UTC, with normal service restored at 20:08 UTC.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 100%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io

What changed

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After: Elevated HTTP 500 errors serving sites and the Netlify UI
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After: critical
AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
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After: 2026-08-18 20:00 UTC
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After: On August 18 between 20:02 and 20:08 UTC, some visitors to Netlify-hosted sites and people using the Netlify dashboard received error pages instead of the content they requested. Normal service was restored at 20:08 UTC. We apologize for the disruption

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Critical incident: Elevated HTTP 500 errors serving sites and the Netlify UI (this change)
Netlify recorded a critical incident starting at 2026-08-18 20:00 UTC, with a computed duration of 0 min and status resolved. Its update reports error pages for some Netlify-hosted site visitors and dashboard users between 20:02 and 20:08 UTC, with normal service restored at 20:08 UTC.
Major incident

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