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

  1. Investigating(done)
  2. Trending(skipped)
  3. Workaround available(skipped)
  4. Resolved(done)
  5. Archived

Executive summary

On August 18, 2026, Netlify experienced a brief disruption where visitors to Netlify-hosted sites and users of the Netlify dashboard received HTTP 500 error pages. Normal service was fully restored after six minutes.

No verified workaround yet

This incident was resolved upstream without a reported workaround.

Official fix
Technical root cause

Under active investigation. No report has identified a root cause yet.

Evidence

1 report · 1 StatusShow
  1. [1]
    Status First report
    Elevated HTTP 500 errors serving sites and the Netlify UI(opens official status page in a new tab)

    Resolved: 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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Timeline

  1. First report on status page

    Elevated HTTP 500 errors serving sites and the Netlify UI

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  2. Official statement

    Resolved: 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.

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  3. Status changed

    Status changed: new → archived (resolved more than 14 days ago).