Clerk reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 31, 2026, 13:55 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 45m.
Right now Clerk is degraded. Live Clerk status →
API performance has remained stable following mitigation. This incident has been resolved.
Mitigation has been applied and API performance has stabilized. We've deployed additional safeguards and are monitoring to confirm continued stability.
We identified elevated traffic affecting the Backend API and user-related requests, causing increased latency and intermittent failures. We've applied mitigation and are monitoring its effect. We'll provide another update once we confirm service stability.
We're investigating elevated latency and intermittent timeouts affecting Clerk API requests. Some customers may see slow responses when loading user and organization data. Our team is looking into it and will post another update once we have more information.
Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Clerk's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.
Overlapping incidents aren't necessarily related.
Clerk reported 13 incidents in the last 90 days, 1 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 2m. See Clerk's uptime and incident history