# Railway: Deployments are slow to progress

- Provider: [Railway](https://outages.cc/railway.md)
- Type: Incident
- State: Resolved
- Worst impact: Degraded performance
- Started: 2026-08-18 21:45 UTC
- Resolved: 2026-08-18 22:40 UTC (lasted 56 min)
- Components: Deployments
- Official update: https://status.railway.com/incident/7M7CBL9X

## Updates from Railway

### resolved, 2026-08-18 22:40 UTC

We have fixed the issue causing deployments to slow and they have returned to normal.

### monitoring, 2026-08-18 22:17 UTC

We have identified the root cause as an issue with our task queue processing, which is causing builds and deployments to progress more slowly than usual. A revert is currently in progress. Users may continue to experience delays in deployments progressing. We will provide another update once the fix is deployed.

### investigating, 2026-08-18 21:45 UTC

We are aware of an issue causing deployments to remain in an initializing state longer than expected. Users may experience delays in new deployments progressing. We are actively investigating and will provide updates as we learn more.