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Substack experiencing increased latency

Degraded Lasted 3h 47m · started · Substack's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Components
Substack publications, Writer dashboards, Email delivery, Substack.com, Custom domains
Down Index
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What to do

  • Check whether you use Substack Substack publications, Writer dashboards, Email delivery, Substack.com and 1 more. Check your stack

    Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.
  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 3h 47m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2025-09-15 15:24 UTC and 2025-09-15 19:12 UTC may need a replay.
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    https://down.guide/feed?provider=substack works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Updates from Substack 10

  1. investigating

    We are currently investigating reports of increased latency and slow response times across Substack.

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  2. investigating

    We are continuing to investigate increased latency and error rates across Substack.

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  3. identified

    We have identified an issue and are seeing normal performance across all systems.

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  4. identified

    We are continuing to investigate increased latency and error rates across Substack.

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  5. identified

    We are working to resolve the remaining performance issues across Substack and expect to see recovery shortly.

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  6. monitoring

    We are seeing recovery of performance across Substack and are monitoring the issue.

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  7. monitoring

    As part of the earlier incident, we are noting delays in analytics updating and post email delivery. We are working to resolve the issue.

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  8. identified

    We are seeing recurrence of increased error rates and degraded performance across Substack.

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  9. monitoring

    Substack is operating normally and our team is monitoring.

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  10. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-455fa82a6b

Is Substack still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2025-09-15 19:12 UTC. For Substack's live state, see https://down.guide/substack.

How long did it last?

3h 47m, from 2025-09-15 15:24 UTC to 2025-09-15 19:12 UTC, by the times Substack posted.

What was affected?

Substack named Substack publications, Writer dashboards, Email delivery, Substack.com and 1 more.

What caused it?

Substack hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Substack's official status page, https://substack.statuspage.io, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.