Render outage: Builds, deploys, and queued deploys are not starting in all regions

Affected components

• Builds and Deploys

1. postmortemOct 22, 2026, 17:58 UTC

   ### Summary On October 14, 2026, between 12:12 and 15:08 PDT \(19:12 - 22:08 UTC\), builds and deploys across all regions failed to start, stalled, or were significantly delayed during two periods of impact totaling about 2 hours and 20 minutes. The cause was a database schema migration run as part of a planned version upgrade of our internal job scheduler that coordinates builds, deploys, and other critical platform operations. The migration led to high load and a longer-than-expected recovery time of this system’s database. We will change how we perform upgrades and modifications of this system in a highly available fashion in the future so that a similar change cannot cause an outage again. ### Impact There were two periods of impact. During this time, live user services were not affected, but builds and deploys across all regions failed to start, failed to finish, or were significantly delayed. **Period 1: 12:12 - 12:40 PDT \(19:12 - 19:40 UTC\), about 28 minutes** * New buil

2. resolvedOct 14, 2026, 22:18 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

3. monitoringOct 14, 2026, 21:43 UTC

   A fix has been implemented, and we are monitoring the results. Deploys and builds for services running on free instances continue to be paused.

4. identifiedOct 14, 2026, 20:57 UTC

   Builds are failing to start again across all regions, and our team is still working to address the root cause. Deploys for free services remain paused. We'll share another update as soon as we have more information.

5. identifiedOct 14, 2026, 20:55 UTC

   The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

6. monitoringOct 14, 2026, 20:41 UTC

   We are temporarily pausing deploys to free services.

7. monitoringOct 14, 2026, 19:47 UTC

   We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

8. monitoringOct 14, 2026, 19:45 UTC

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

9. identifiedOct 14, 2026, 19:39 UTC

   The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

10. investigatingOct 14, 2026, 19:32 UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 14, 2026, 19:34 UTCoperational → partial outage
• Oct 14, 2026, 19:49 UTCpartial outage → degraded
• Oct 14, 2026, 20:59 UTCdegraded → partial outage
• Oct 14, 2026, 21:44 UTCpartial outage → degraded
• Oct 14, 2026, 22:19 UTCdegraded → operational

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How often does Render have incidents?

Render reported 14 incidents in the last 90 days, 5 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 36m. See Render's uptime and incident history