VRChat experienced a major incident on June 8, 2025 affecting Authentication / Login and Social / Friends List and 1 more component, lasting 8h 53m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jun 08, 2025, 12:30 AM UTC
We're aware of and are investigating degraded performance and instability of our API systems causing the VRChat client and website to stop functioning normally.
- investigating Jun 08, 2025, 02:08 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- investigating Jun 08, 2025, 02:15 AM UTC
We are observing failed logins and dropped connections to VRChat. We are still investigating and will provide updates as they are available.
- investigating Jun 08, 2025, 02:20 AM UTC
The Friends service has been temporarily disabled, which will result in users being unable to get information about their friends. This is intentional and will be re-enabled once service stability improves.
- investigating Jun 08, 2025, 03:01 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate issues causing degraded or inaccessible VRChat services. We'll provide more updates as soon as they are available.
- identified Jun 08, 2025, 03:08 AM UTC
The issue has been identified as a service degradation or an issue with an upstream provider. We are working with them to solve the issue.
- identified Jun 08, 2025, 03:35 AM UTC
We are continuing to work on this issue with our upstream provider. We appreciate your patience!
- identified Jun 08, 2025, 03:58 AM UTC
We're still working with our upstream provider to resolve these issues. Thank you for your patience!
- identified Jun 08, 2025, 04:22 AM UTC
Providing your regular 20 minute update: we're still working with our upstream provider to fix the issues. We're making some progress, and hope to have things back up soon.
- identified Jun 08, 2025, 04:45 AM UTC
We're continuing to collaborate with our upstream provider. We currently do not have an ETA for a fix, but we're working as hard as possible to mitigate the issues. We'll continue to provide updates every 20 to 30 minutes.
- identified Jun 08, 2025, 05:20 AM UTC
We are continuing to work with our upstream provider to resolve VRChat service availability issues. As soon as new information becomes available, we will update this incident report.
- identified Jun 08, 2025, 06:22 AM UTC
We're continuing to work with our upstream provider to bring VRChat services back online. Further updates will come as new information becomes available.
- identified Jun 08, 2025, 08:10 AM UTC
We have worked around the issues with our upstream provider, bringing VRChat services back online. Users should now be able to log in and join instances again. We are currently scaling up our services carefully and will enable functionality (Friends) as we become more confident with service stability.
- monitoring Jun 08, 2025, 08:30 AM UTC
The Friends service has been re-enabled.
- resolved Jun 08, 2025, 09:23 AM UTC
Our services have been scaled up and are fully functional again. We'll continue to monitor to ensure things remain stable.