Makeswift had 5 outages in the last 2 years totaling 5h 9m of downtime — averaging 0.2 incidents per month.
There were 5 Makeswift outages since November 14, 2025 totaling 5h 9m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.
We are currently investigating this issue.
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently investigating this issue.
We had a large spike in traffic, which caused brief saturation of our Redis instance and database. We then identified a hole in our rate limiting (which has now been patched). A blog post will follow. Thank you for your patience!
This incident has been resolved.
The Makeswift Builder, Makeswift API, and some customer live pages experienced intermittent errors. The issue has been resolved.
The Makeswift Builder was experiencing slow load times. There was no impact to the Makeswift API or customer live pages. The impact was scoped just to the Builder. https://www.makeswift.com/incidents/2026-03-02
https://www.makeswift.com/incidents/2025-11-10