Clerk incident

Increased latency & 500 Errors on FAPI/BAPI

Minor Resolved View vendor source →
Started
Mar 10, 2026, 05:26 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 10, 2026, 05:26 PM UTC
Duration
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 10, 2026, 05:26 PM UTC

Affected components

Email deliveryB2B SaaSUser and authenticationSession managementBillingWebhooksSMS delivery

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 10, 2026, 03:53 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We're investigating increased latency in our services. Affected components Machine authentication (Degraded performance) Webhooks (Degraded performance) B2B SaaS (Degraded performance) Email delivery (Degraded performance) SMS delivery (Degraded performance) User and authentication (Degraded performance) Billing (Degraded performance) Session management (Degraded performance)

  2. investigating Mar 10, 2026, 04:17 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We're still investigating the root cause and enabling mitigations for this problem. Affected components Email delivery (Degraded performance) SMS delivery (Degraded performance) User and authentication (Degraded performance) Billing (Degraded performance) Session management (Degraded performance) Machine authentication (Degraded performance) Webhooks (Degraded performance) B2B SaaS (Degraded performance)

  3. investigating Mar 10, 2026, 04:24 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating A mitigation mechanism was turned on, and sessions are showing early recovering signals. Affected components Billing (Degraded performance) Session management (Degraded performance) Machine authentication (Degraded performance) Webhooks (Degraded performance) B2B SaaS (Degraded performance) Email delivery (Degraded performance) SMS delivery (Degraded performance) User and authentication (Degraded performance)

  4. monitoring Mar 10, 2026, 04:34 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring The mitigation mechanism was turned on successfully, and all the services are now operational! We're still monitoring any anomalous behavior in our services Affected components SMS delivery (Operational) User and authentication (Operational) Billing (Operational) Session management (Operational) Webhooks (Operational) B2B SaaS (Operational) Email delivery (Operational)

  5. resolved Mar 10, 2026, 05:26 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved This incident is now resolved. We've identified the root cause and are preparing a detailed post-mortem, which we'll share soon. Thank you for your patience. Affected components Webhooks (Operational) B2B SaaS (Operational) Email delivery (Operational) SMS delivery (Operational) User and authentication (Operational) Billing (Operational) Session management (Operational)

Looking to track Clerk downtime and outages?

Pingoru polls Clerk's status page every 5 minutes and alerts you the moment it reports an issue — before your customers do.

  • Real-time alerts when Clerk reports an incident
  • Email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and webhook notifications
  • Track Clerk alongside 5,000+ providers in one dashboard
  • Component-level filtering
  • Notification groups + maintenance calendar
Start monitoring Clerk for free

5 free monitors · No credit card required