VRChat outage on 9 October 2026
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“API Performance Issues”
On 9 October, VRChat had a major outage. The status page reported degraded performance and instability in its API systems that stopped the VRChat client and website from working normally. The incident was open from 22:26 to 23:33 UTC (1 h 6 min), but the status page's updates said latency and errors were back to normal levels by 23:00. During that period the friends list component was affected from 22:26 to 23:00. Cursor, Asana, Gamma and Sprout Social also reported problems around the same time.
VRChat’s own incident page ↗- When
- 22:27–23:33 UTC
- How long
- 1 h 6 min
- Incident open on its page
- 22:26–23:33 UTC
- Components affected
- 1
- VRChat, 30 days before
- No other outages
What broke when
From VRChat’s own status page: when it moved each component into trouble, and back.
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 117 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- API / Website - Social / Friends List: degraded performance
- Fix in place, monitoring
- API / Website - Social / Friends List: back to normal
- Resolved
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads VRChat’s official status page at status.vrchat.com every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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