Elevated 503 Errors on API and Storefront

Incident Report for BigCommerce

Resolved

BigCommerce engineers were notified of an issue causing HTTP 503 errors over the API at approximately 11:57 UTC. A fix completed rolling out at 17:27 UTC and we no longer observed HTTP 503 errors over the API and all systems are fully operational.
Posted Nov 11, 2025 - 11:59 CST

Monitoring

BigCommerce engineers have completed deploying a fix across the platform and are no longer observing HTTP 503 errors for API requests. We will continue to provide updates as they come through.
Posted Nov 11, 2025 - 11:30 CST

Update

BigCommerce engineers are currently deploying a fix across our platform and HTTP 503 errors have decreased significantly. We will continue deploying to the remainder of our platform and will provide additional information as progress continues.
Posted Nov 11, 2025 - 10:44 CST

Identified

BigCommerce engineers have identified the root cause of the issue and are working to resolve it. We will provide updates as they come through.
Posted Nov 11, 2025 - 10:02 CST

Update

The issue causing 503 responses on API and storefront requests persists. Our engineers are still investigating underlying infrastructure components and potential upstream dependencies.
We’re actively working toward a resolution and will provide another update as soon as progress is made.
Posted Nov 11, 2025 - 09:33 CST

Update

We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Posted Nov 11, 2025 - 08:57 CST

Update

The issue causing 503 responses on API and storefront requests persists. Our engineers are still investigating underlying infrastructure components and potential upstream dependencies.
We’re actively working toward a resolution and will provide another update as soon as progress is made.
Posted Nov 11, 2025 - 08:19 CST

Update

We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Posted Nov 11, 2025 - 07:39 CST

Update

We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Posted Nov 11, 2025 - 07:02 CST

Investigating

We’re currently investigating an issue causing 503 errors on API and storefront requests. This includes degraded performance on some storefronts and failures for API requests. Our team is working to identify the root cause and restore normal service as quickly as possible.
Posted Nov 11, 2025 - 06:23 CST
This incident affected: Storefront.