Builder.io incident

Investigating elevated p99 latency

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Builder.io experienced a minor incident on March 20, 2026 affecting Content Delivery APIs, lasting 8h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 20, 2026, 01:42 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 20, 2026, 09:42 PM UTC
Duration
8h
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 20, 2026, 01:42 PM UTC

Affected components

Content Delivery APIs

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 20, 2026, 01:42 PM UTC

    p99 latency is elevated across the Content API

  2. identified Mar 20, 2026, 03:14 PM UTC

    We have identified a likely cause of the elevated p99 latency affecting the Content API. Customers may be experiencing slow API responses and timeouts/errors. Our team is actively investigating and working on a fix. We will provide another update as soon as we have more information.

  3. monitoring Mar 20, 2026, 04:53 PM UTC

    We have identified that the elevated p99 latency on the Content API was caused by latency introduced by our upstream database provider. We are actively monitoring performance and will provide another update as soon as we have more information.

  4. identified Mar 20, 2026, 06:49 PM UTC

    We have determined that the elevated p99 latency on the Content API is caused by an issue with our upstream database provider. We are actively working with them to resolve the issue and will provide another update as soon as we have more information.

  5. identified Mar 20, 2026, 08:49 PM UTC

    We are still working with our upstream database provider to resolve the elevated p99 latency on the Content API. We will share another update as soon as information is available.

  6. resolved Mar 20, 2026, 09:42 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.