Resolved · lasted 2 h
Kickstarter outage on August 22
Reports for Kickstarter jumped to 93 an hour and stayed high for 2 h.
- Started
- 7:00 PM
- August 22, 2026 · UTC
- Back to normal
- 9:00 PM
- 2 h later
- Peak
- 93/hr
- 93× normal
- Kickstarter’s incident
- 56 min
- Elevated Error Rate
Reports during the outage
5:00 PM10:50 PM UTC
What Kickstarter said
status.kickstarter.comResolved8:35 – 9:31 PM · 56 min
Elevated Error Rate
- Resolved · 9:31 PM
All-clear! We've been monitoring the site and everything looks good. Sorry for any trouble.
- Monitoring · 8:46 PM
A fix has been implemented and we're standing by to make sure everything runs smoothly.
- Investigating · 8:35 PM
We're investigating elevated error rates with checkout and slow site performance. Thanks for your patience while we look into this.
Kickstarter posted its first update 1 h 36 min after reports started rising.
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