Clerk incident
Elevated API latency
Resolved after 1 h 44 min.
- Started
- Ended
- Worst state
- Degraded
- On Clerk’s status page
- Source
- Components
- Application "Go live", Authentication & User, Dashboard, Dashboard analytics, Dashboard search, Email delivery, Hosted UIs (Account Portal), Machine authentication, Platform API, SMS delivery, Webhooks
Timeline
- Clerk status page · Investigating We're investigating elevated latency and intermittent timeouts affecting Clerk API requests. Some customers may see slow responses when loading user and organization data. Our team is looking into it and will post another update once we have more information.
- Clerk status page · Reported Elevated API latency
- Clerk status page · Identified We identified elevated traffic affecting the Backend API and user-related requests, causing increased latency and intermittent failures. We've applied mitigation and are monitoring its effect. We'll provide another update once we confirm service stability.
- Clerk status page · Monitoring Mitigation has been applied and API performance has stabilized. We've deployed additional safeguards and are monitoring to confirm continued stability.
- Clerk status page · Resolved API performance has remained stable following mitigation. This incident has been resolved.
Cite this incident
Site Qwality, “Elevated API latency,” Aug 31, 2026, https://siteqwality.com/is-clerk-down/incidents/clerk-202608311355/
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