Netlify incident: Purges are Delayed on Primary Load Balancer

Affected components

• Standard Edge Network

1. resolvedMay 15, 2026, 18:58 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. monitoringMay 15, 2026, 17:44 UTC

   A fix has been implemented, and we are monitoring the results.

3. identifiedMay 15, 2026, 16:23 UTC

   We are currently experiencing a delay in cache purges, and some sites on our Standard Edge Network may be serving stale content. The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

What APIStatus.watch saw

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