Vercel outage on September 18, 2026: Deployment stuck in initializing state
Vercel reported an incident affecting Vercel for 55 minutes on 18 September 2026, from 21:36 to 22:31 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by Vercel
- Started
- 21:36
- 18 Sep 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 22:31
- 18 Sep 2026 UTC
- Duration
- 55m
- 55 minutes
- Impact
- Minor
- as rated by Vercel
- Updates
- 3
- posted by Vercel
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Vercel
Deployment stuck in initializing state
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Official
Investigating
We are currently investigating an issue causing an elevated rate of deployments getting stuck in an initializing state. We will provide additional updates as they become available.
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Official
Monitoring
We have identified an issue causing deployments to get stuck in an initialized state, applied a fix, and are seeing signs of recovery for new deployments. We are continuing to monitor.
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Official
Resolved
This incident has been resolved.
"Official" rows are quoted from Vercel's public status page, www.vercel-status.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
HostTracker's checkpoints, which test vercel.com from several locations, recorded no outage of 5 minutes or longer during this incident. A provider can report a problem that affects only some features, regions or accounts, which a check of the main address does not see. The live Vercel status shows what our checks see right now.
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