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Clerk Outage History

Every past Clerk outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 72 Clerk outages since August 2021. The 41 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor April 7, 2026

April 2026: Satellite domain failures

Detected Apr 7, 2026 11:42 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 8, 2026 12:06 AM EDT · Duration 24 minutes

A subset of customers using Clerk's satellite domains experienced service failures starting at 1:44am UTC. The issue was identified and a revert was deployed to resolve the problem. Systems stabilized after 24 minutes with continued monitoring in place.

Minor March 23, 2026

March 2026: Degraded perfomance in webhooks

Detected Mar 23, 2026 8:32 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 23, 2026 9:01 AM EDT · Duration 28 minutes

Clerk experienced degraded performance affecting a small subset of webhooks, causing small delays in webhook delivery. The service team investigated the issue for 28 minutes before resolving it. The incident was classified as minor with limited impact on webhook functionality.

Minor March 20, 2026

March 2026: Degraded performance

Detected Mar 20, 2026 6:09 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 20, 2026 1:24 PM EDT · Duration about 7 hours

The Clerk service experienced intermittent API errors causing elevated latency and request failures over a 7.3-hour period. The engineering team identified the root cause and applied mitigations to stabilize system performance. The incident was resolved after monitoring confirmed full recovery.

Minor March 11, 2026

March 2026: JWT Templates increased 422 errors

Detected Mar 11, 2026 4:24 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 11, 2026 4:36 PM EDT · Duration 11 minutes

Clerk's JWT Templates service experienced increased 422 errors when organization IDs were present in requests. The issue affected JWT template functionality for 11 minutes. A fix was identified and implemented to resolve the error responses.

Major March 10, 2026

March 2026: Increased latency and 500s on FAPI/BAPI

Detected Mar 10, 2026 12:02 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 10, 2026 1:37 PM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

The Clerk service experienced increased latency and 500 errors on FAPI/BAPI endpoints for 1.6 hours. The incident affected service performance and availability, causing degraded user experience. The team implemented a mitigation mechanism that successfully restored normal operations and resolved the issue.

Minor March 6, 2026

March 2026: Development instances are down

Detected Mar 6, 2026 11:36 AM EST · Resolved Mar 6, 2026 12:30 PM EST · Duration about 1 hour

Clerk's development instances experienced a 54-minute outage due to DNS resolution issues affecting the accounts.dev domain. The incident was resolved through configuration changes and coordination with the DNS provider. Production instances remained unaffected throughout the incident.