Netlify outage: Elevated HTTP 500 errors serving sites and the Netlify UI

1. resolvedAug 18, 2026, 20:00 UTC

   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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