Buffer experienced a minor incident on September 23, 2026 affecting Publishing and Login and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Sep 23, 2026, 03:26 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We’re currently experiencing slowness with Buffer, which may affect your app performance. Our team is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it as quickly as possible. We’ll keep you updated on our progress and apologise for the disruption. Affected components Settings (Degraded performance) Community (Degraded performance) Analytics (Degraded performance) Publishing (Degraded performance) Channel connections (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance)
- identified Sep 23, 2026, 03:39 PM UTC
Status: Identified We’ve identified the cause of an issue that may cause the Buffer dashboard to load slowly or show intermittent errors. Our team has increased capacity to reduce the impact and is continuing to investigate the underlying cause. We’re sorry for the disruption and appreciate your patience. Affected components Community (Degraded performance) Analytics (Degraded performance) Publishing (Degraded performance) Channel connections (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) Settings (Degraded performance)
- monitoring Sep 23, 2026, 03:53 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring We’ve addressed the issue causing slowness with Buffer and are currently monitoring the app to ensure that performance is stable. We’ll keep you updated with any further developments and provide a final update once we confirm that the service is fully restored. Affected components Publishing (Degraded performance) Channel connections (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) Settings (Degraded performance) Community (Degraded performance) Analytics (Degraded performance)
- resolved Sep 23, 2026, 04:31 PM UTC
Status: Resolved The issues loading have now been resolved. We'll be keeping a close eye on things over the next day to ensure continued stability. Thank you for your patience as we worked through the underlying cause. Affected components Login (Operational) Settings (Operational) Community (Operational) Analytics (Operational) Publishing (Operational) Channel connections (Operational)