VS Code Outage on September 16, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTC
Incident report for the VS Code (code.visualstudio.com) outage on September 16, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTC. This page is the canonical incident summary and outage details record — outage timeline, outage duration, peak reports, and what caused this incident (where known) plus how detected the event. For deeper post mortem analysis once available, the operator's own status page is usually the source of record.
VS Code (code.visualstudio.com) experienced a 1h service disruption on September 16, 2026, starting at September 16, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTC and resolving at September 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM UTC. During the incident window, 2 of 3 automated HTTPS probes failed, confirming the outage. Among checks that did succeed, average response time was 3105ms — significantly elevated, suggesting partial degradation even during nominal uptime periods.
Incident details
Our checking infrastructure ran 3 automated HTTPS probes during this window (September 16, 2026 at 09:00 PM UTC through September 17, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC). Of those, 2 failed (HTTP error, timeout, or DNS failure), confirming the outage. We use a dual-signal monitoring pipeline that combines automated HTTPS probes with crowd-sourced user reports to detect and verify outages.
Other recent dev tools outages
For other recent incidents in the same service category, see the dev tools category page, which lists every dev tools site we monitor and their current status. For a month-by-month breakdown of all recorded outages including this one, see the September 2026 outage report or the full monthly reports archive.