Search document updates delays in Control Panel and Storefront experience
This incident has been resolved.
The latest update from BigCommerce.
State
Resolved
Started
61 d ago
2026-09-01 23:43 UTC
Lasted
2 h 23 min
until 2026-09-02 02:05 UTC
Worst impact
Notice
Timeline
3 updatesInvestigating
1 min 1%
Monitoring
2 h 22 min 99%
Updates
Times in UTCAs posted by BigCommerce
This incident has been resolved.
We have identified the cause and are currently implementing a fix. We will continue monitoring recovery and provide another update as the queues return to normal levels.
Starting August 31 at approximately 10:00 AM CT, we observed growing indexing queues affecting a subset of stores. During this period, newly created or updated entities may have taken up to 6 hours to become searchable in the Control Panel and storefront.
Affected components
1Follow BigCommerce
Your coding agent knows when BigCommerce is down, and tells you when a failure is theirs, not yours. You can also get BigCommerce incidents in a feed reader or in Slack.
Install the outages.live MCP server, so that when something breaks you can tell if the cause is a provider we depend on and not my code. It reads the official status pages of cloud, AI, payment and developer providers and gives you their incidents as MCP tools.
Add it as a remote MCP server named "outages" at https://outages.cc/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no authentication), with your CLI command or your MCP config file.
Then:
1. Make sure it connects and shows the tools get_provider, list_feed and send_feedback.
2. Call get_provider with "bigcommerce" and tell me if BigCommerce has a problem right now.
3. From now on, when a call to a third-party service fails or becomes slow, call get_provider for that service before you change my code.Paste this into any coding agent. It adds the server with its own MCP setup.
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