Contentful incident: Increased error rates on Content Management API

Affected components

• Content Management API
• Web App

1. resolvedMay 13, 2026, 13:57 UTC

   The issue has been resolved.

2. monitoringMay 13, 2026, 13:52 UTC

   We have resolved the issue and are monitoring the situation.

3. investigatingMay 13, 2026, 13:47 UTC

   Customers are experiencing errors on CMA and within the Web App, we are investigating.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Contentful's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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Contentful reported 9 incidents in the last 90 days, 3 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 3h 6m. See Contentful's uptime and incident history