# Render: Builds, deploys, and queued deploys are not starting in all regions

- Provider: [Render](https://outages.cc/render.md)
- Type: Incident
- State: Resolved
- Worst impact: Partial outage
- Started: 2026-10-14 19:32 UTC
- Resolved: 2026-10-14 22:18 UTC (lasted 2 h 45 min)
- Components: Builds and Deploys
- Official update: https://stspg.io/qb9l5v44x73f

## Updates from Render

### postmortem, 2026-10-22 17:58 UTC

### Summary On October 14, 2026, between 12:12 and 15:08 PDT \(19:12 - 22:08 UTC\), builds and deploys across all regions failed to start, stalled, or were significantly delayed during two periods of impact totaling about 2 hours and 20 minutes. The cause was a database schema migration run as part of a planned version upgrade of our internal job scheduler that coordinates builds, deploys, and other critical platform operations. The migration led to high load and a longer-than-expected recovery time of this system’s database. We will change how we perform upgrades and modifications of this system in a highly available fashion in the future so that a similar change cannot cause an outage again. ### Impact There were two periods of impact. During this time, live user services were not affected, but builds and deploys across all regions failed to start, failed to finish, or were significantly delayed. **Period 1: 12:12 - 12:40 PDT \(19:12 - 19:40 UTC\), about 28 minutes** * New builds and

### resolved, 2026-10-14 22:18 UTC

This incident has been resolved.

### monitoring, 2026-10-14 21:43 UTC

A fix has been implemented, and we are monitoring the results. Deploys and builds for services running on free instances continue to be paused.

### identified, 2026-10-14 20:57 UTC

Builds are failing to start again across all regions, and our team is still working to address the root cause. Deploys for free services remain paused. We'll share another update as soon as we have more information.

### identified, 2026-10-14 20:55 UTC

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

### monitoring, 2026-10-14 20:41 UTC

We are temporarily pausing deploys to free services.

### monitoring, 2026-10-14 19:47 UTC

We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

### monitoring, 2026-10-14 19:45 UTC

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

### identified, 2026-10-14 19:39 UTC

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

### investigating, 2026-10-14 19:32 UTC

We are currently investigating this issue.