Fastly incident
Retrospective: Impacted Performance to our API & Configuration Management
Fastly experienced a notice incident on July 21, 2026 affecting Fastly Control Panel and API & Configuration Management and 1 more component, lasting 20m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jul 21, 2026, 05:49 PM UTC
Fastly Engineers detected a performance impacting event affecting our API & Configuration Management. All data centers and services were unaffected. The issue has been resolved and we are monitoring performance closely.
- resolved Jul 21, 2026, 06:09 PM UTC
Engineering has confirmed that our API & Configuration Management services has been fully restored. Customers may have experienced delayed or failed Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) deployments and API failures on https://manage.fastly.com/ from 17:49 to 18:09 UTC. This incident is resolved. Note: Our Customer Escalation Management team will update the start date and time of the initial "investigating" status post upon the resolution of this incident. This update is meant to provide our customers and their end users with a potential impact window. The date and time mentioned in the message above indicates when the status post was requested by our Acute Incident Response team. Status Post, Created Date/Time: 2026-07-21 18:28:36 UTC