Vercel Resolves Telemetry Data Loss Incident for Drains Service

Traces and events forwarded through Vercel's Drains were dropped during a six-minute window on July 23.

By The Downtime · Jul 29, 2026 · 4:30 PM

Vercel has resolved a major incident affecting its Drains telemetry service. Between 19:12 and 19:18 UTC on July 23, 2026, telemetry data forwarded through Drains was not delivered, resulting in unrecoverable loss of traces and events transmitted during the window. Logs forwarded via Drains during the same period were not delivered but remain accessible through the Logs UI dashboard and can be exported.

Vercel is a cloud platform that enables developers to deploy, host, and scale web applications. The company serves millions of developers and organizations globally.

The company deployed a fix following the incident and announced plans to add additional monitoring to prevent similar failures. "We know how much you rely on this data, and we sincerely apologize for the disruption," Vercel stated in its incident summary.

The incident is now resolved.

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resolved Jul 24, 5:26 PM

Between 19:12 and 19:18 UTC on July 23, 2026, telemetry forwarded through Drains was not delivered. Traces and events forwarded via Drains during this window were dropped and are unrecoverable. Logs forwarded via Drains during this window were also not delivered, but remain accessible in the Logs UI dashboard, where they can also be exported. We have deployed a fix and are adding additional monitoring to detect and prevent this failure mode from happening in the future. We know how much you rely on this data, and we sincerely apologize for the disruption.

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