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Vercel outage: Increased build and deployment failures

Vercel reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 12, 2026, 13:35 UTC. It was resolved after 6h 36m.

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Oct 12, 2026, 13:35 UTC
started
Oct 12, 2026, 20:11 UTC
resolved
6h 36m
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • Builds
  • Git Integrations
  1. resolvedOct 12, 2026, 20:11 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringOct 12, 2026, 19:56 UTC

    The backlog of deployment events has been processed. We will continue to monitor and provide additional updates as they become available.

  3. identifiedOct 12, 2026, 18:33 UTC

    Deployment events, such as updating the deployment status on pull requests, are delayed and the backlog is being processed. We will provide additional updates as they become available.

  4. identifiedOct 12, 2026, 16:10 UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix. Due to an upstream incident at GitHub (https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/93njd414rpbx), some builds and deployments for GitHub-connected projects are still failing. We will provide additional updates as they become available.

  5. identifiedOct 12, 2026, 14:57 UTC

    Build and deployment failure rates have decreased, but some builds remain queued and are taking longer to start. We are continuing to work on a fix. We will provide additional updates as they become available.

  6. identifiedOct 12, 2026, 14:08 UTC

    We have identified the issue and are working on a fix. We will provide additional updates as they become available.

  7. investigatingOct 12, 2026, 13:35 UTC

    We've identified an issue where some customers may experience build failures or deployments that fail to start. We are investigating this issue. We will provide additional updates as they become available.

What APIStatus.watch saw

  • Oct 12, 2026, 13:37 UTCoperational → degraded
  • Oct 12, 2026, 20:14 UTCdegraded → operational

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How often does Vercel have incidents?

Vercel reported 17 incidents in the last 90 days, 9 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 57 min. See Vercel's uptime and incident history